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UN cybercrime treaty passes in unanimous vote
The United Nations passed its first cybercrime treaty on Thursday in a unanimous vote supporting an agreement first put forward by Russia.
The United Nations passed its first cybercrime treaty on Thursday in a unanimous vote supporting an agreement first put forward by Russia. There were disagreements on just a couple of parts of the latest text voted on Thursday, but the final outcome is a treaty that does not significantly change earlier, controversial versions of the draft agreement, said Raman Jit Singh Chima, the Asia Pacific Policy Director at the digital freedoms organization Access Now. While there are other existing treaties on cybercrime which emanate from regional bodies — and some that are slightly more international, such as the 23-year-old Budapest Convention — there has previously been no legal framework which has been debated and accepted by consensus among all UN member states.
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