UN cybercrime treaty passes in unanimous vote
(therecord.media)https://therecord.media/un-cybercrime-treaty-passes-unanimous>The United Nations passed its first cybercrime treaty on Thursday in a unanimous vote supporting an agreement first put forward by Russia.
The passage of the treaty is significant and establishes for the first time a global-level cybercrime and data access-enabling legal framework.
The treaty was adopted late Thursday by the body’s Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime and will next go to the General Assembly for a vote in the fall. It is expected to sail through the General Assembly since the same states will be voting on it there.
The agreement follows three years of negotiations capped by the final two-week session that has been underway.
Russia also supported the draft treaty, which was a surprise given earlier concerns raised by the country’s representative.
Opponents of the treaty include human rights organizations and big tech companies.
Both factions have concerns over text that says authorities investigating crimes in any nation are entitled to obtain electronic evidence from other nations as well as ask internet service providers to hand over data.
There were disagreements on just a couple of parts of the latest text voted on Thursday, but the final outcome is a treaty that does not significantly change earlier, controversial versions of the draft agreement, said Raman Jit Singh Chima, the Asia Pacific Policy Director at the digital freedoms organization Access Now.
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