How The UN’s Cybercrime Convention Draft Is a Threat To Free Speech and Privacy Online

Last month, the UN came up with the first zero draft of its UN Cybercrime Convention and released it publicly.

We obtained a copy of the draft for you here.

January 2024 is the current deadline for its adoption, but the hope of civil groups involved in the process is that this will be done by consensus, and that, if needed, the deadline would be extended.

Worked on by UN member-states and a number of groups and organizations, with input from EFF, Privacy International, etc., the Convention is supposed to establish global rules regarding the way countries can employ surveillance as they investigate and prosecute cyber crimes.

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