UN Cybercrime Treaty Has Morphed Into An Expansive Surveillance Treaty

A new draft of the controversial United Nations Cybercrime Treaty has only heightened concerns that the Treaty will criminalise expression and dissent, create extensive surveillance powers and facilitate cross-border repression.

The Cybercrime Treaty that is currently being negotiated by the United Nations has the potential to substantively reshape international criminal law and bolster cross-border police surveillance powers to access and share users' data, implicating the human rights of billions of people worldwide.

Without a clearly defined scope and sufficient safeguards, the Treaty could endanger human rights - both online and offline - and repressive governments could abuse its provisions to criminalise online free speech.

Originally aimed at combating cybercrime, the Treaty has morphed into an expansive surveillance treaty, raising the risk of overreach in both national and international investigations.

The scope of the proposed Cybercrime Treaty will have a profound impact on human rights.

Is primed to facilitate abuses on a global scale, through extensive cross-border powers to investigate virtually any imaginable 'crime' - like peaceful dissent or expression of sexual orientation - while undermining the treaty's purpose of addressing genuine cybercrime.

Governments will hold closed-door talks on 19-20 December in Vienna, in an attempt to reach a consensus on what crimes to include in the treaty. 

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