More than 70 countries signed the landmark UN Convention against Cybercrime in Hanoi this weekend, a significant step in the yearslong effort to create a global mechanism to counteract digital crime.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/40761708

Human rights groups warned on Friday that it effectively forces member states to create a broad electronic surveillance dragnet that would include crimes that have nothing to do with technology.

Many expressed concern that the convention will be abused by dictatorships and rogue governments who will deploy it against critics or protesters — even those outside of a regime’s jurisdiction.

Oh how unfortunate, im sure that was not part of the plan from the beginning… /s

  • NGram@piefed.caEnglish
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    5 days ago

    This is quite arguably a good move by the US so I’m not really convinced it’s relevant here. The treaty is a privacy nightmare. While we already know that the USA already violates everyone’s privacy, them joining this would embolden other countries to do it at the same level. Having separate privacy-violating systems is a lot better than a fully integrated one (but having only privacy-respecting systems would be even better).