R to @echo_pbreyer: 🇬🇧On Monday final negotiations on a global UN #surveillancetreaty, called the #UNCybercrimeConvention, will begin. Any government worldwide - including regimes such as Russia and China - could use it to demand secret access to our data and real-time surveillance on the grounds of a wide range of criminal offenses and with hardly any privacy and fundamental rights safeguards.

Even the EU and Canada criticise a lack of protection against this agreement being misused for "repression of expression, conscience, opinion, belief, peaceful assembly or association", threatening security researchers, whistleblowers, activists and journalists: "The current draft text encompasses broad and uncertain swaths of conduct ... we can find no other UN criminal treaty with such broad and ambiguous parameters." https://www.unodc.org/documents/Cybercrime/AdHocCommittee/Concluding_session/Submissions/Canada_proposal_3.3.pdf

Over 100 civil society NGOs also warn against cross-border surveillance without a warrant and without limitation to specific investigations. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/joint-statement-proposed-cybercrime-treaty-ahead-concluding-session

As a #Pirate, I call for an immediate halt to the negotiation of this UN surveillance treaty and instead negotiating an international #NoSpy treaty to protect us from #masssurveillance!

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/echo_pbreyer/status/1750852199691792548#m

[2024-01-26 12:04 UTC]