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More People Are Realizing The UN's Cybercrime Treaty is an Excuse For Global Surveillance
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this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
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These might be a better / more detailed sources:
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2023/08/23/the-ai-sized-holes-in-the-un-cybercrime-treaty-00112483
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/proposed-un-cybercrime-treaty-threatens-be-expansive-global-surveillance-pact
Reminds me of that new law in the Netherlands where there are strict rules on collecting data within the Netherlands that still allow for research to be done. However it has this tiny loophole that allows any data to be sent to other countries indiscriminately.
A referendum was even held and the results were ignored.
I just hope this won't have bad consequences long term. The truth is that this ignores the right to privacy.
The truth is that leadership world wide only values privacy when it's their own. Everything else is a big f'n show. Information is the single most valuable commodity on the planet and knowing your potential "opponents" is priceless. Maintaining power over others necessitates invading the privacy of others in the minds of 99% of people.
Strange thing is that they are not even valuing their own privacy. Adding “backdoors” to E2E encryption, or whatever that means, will also impact them. If a backdoor exists, malicious parties will find and exploit it. Legislators own messages, videos, photos and other media will no longer be safe either
Tja, a lot of people here think it's a good thing because there unfortunately are a lot of asshats, and so they don't give it a second thought. The simple fact is that in the Netherlands people have a great general trust in people, and it has a long history of independence, so there's simply no fear of democracy breaking down.
And from that perspective it is totally reasonable to want the extra surveillance. As long as you trust that it is used for good.
Honestly I think Berlin is the one that is in the right position to move privacy forward, given its history, culture, and significant hacker demography.