This week, the final round of negotiations of the so called “UN Cybercrime Convention” has started. The content of the treaty seriously alarms us as a human rights NGO, so we once again travelled to New York to stop a potential agreement on this dangerous draft.

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This was 2023 from a digital rights perspective: We look back on an eventful year.

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The year is drawing to a close - and one of the topics that was and still is high on our agenda is the planned United Nations Cybercrime Convention.

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UN Cybercrime Convention – The Talks Continue

 

Back in January we published a blogpost explaining what to expect from the UN Cybercrime Convention negotiations in Vienna, Austria.

 

Now, the fifth round of talks (11 – 21 April 2023), held at the UN’s Vienna Office, has concluded. Tanja…

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The rapid speed at which digital technologies are becoming increasingly connected and penetrate all areas of life also requires constant adaptation of legal regulations. This development also extends to the fighting of crime. Despite existing regulations at the regional level (for example, the…

Government Spyware , Data Retention , Privacy and Data Protection , Surveillance , UN-Cybercrime-Convention

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09/27/2024 Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung S. 3 Print yes
09/26/2024 Die Presse S. 10 Print yes
09/26/2024 Der Standard S. 8 Print yes
09/25/2024 Die Presse Web yes
09/25/2024 Krone.at Web yes
09/25/2024 ORF Web yes

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