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U.S. May Support ‘Global Surveillance’ Treaty Hated by Everyone but Authoritarian Governments | Privacy advocates, human rights groups, and multinational technology companies have all said the U.N.'s new cybercrime convention is a disaster waiting to happen.
Privacy advocates, human rights groups, and multinational technology companies have all said the U.N.'s new cybercrime convention is a disaster waiting to happen.
The U.S. will support an international cybercrimes treaty that a broad coalition of businesses and human rights groups have warned will weaken global cybersecurity and make it easier for authoritarian regimes to spy on and prosecute their citizens, according to media outlets briefed on the decision. “By expanding government surveillance to investigate crimes, the treaty could create an unprecedented tool for cross-border cooperation in connection with a wide range of offenses, without adequate safeguards to protect people from abuses of power,” wrote Tirana Hassan, the executive director of Human Rights Watch. “The fact that you have industry and civil society aligned in our concerns to such an unprecedented degree should continue to give member states pause,” Nemanja Malisevic, Microsoft’s director of digital diplomacy, said during a hearing before the final language of the treaty was approved.
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