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White House Agonizes Over UN Cybercrime Treaty
Friday September 27, 2024. 08:45 PM , from Slashdot
While the treaty is not set for a vote during the U.N. General Assembly this week, it's a key topic of debate on the sidelines, following meetings in New York City last week, and committee meetings set for next month once the world's leaders depart. The treaty was troubled from its inception. A cybercrime convention was originally proposed by Russia, and the U.N. voted in late 2019 to start the process to draft it -- overruling objections by the U.S. and other Western nations. Those countries were worried Russia would use the agreement as an alternative to the Budapest Convention -- an existing accord on cybercrime administered by the Council of Europe, which Russia, China and Iran have not joined. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/09/27/1834246/white-house-agonizes-over-un-cybercrime-treaty?utm_s...
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