{"id":194447,"date":"2024-08-13T01:24:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T06:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/new-u-n-cybercrime-treaty-could-threaten-human-rights"},"modified":"2024-08-13T01:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T06:24:19","slug":"new-u-n-cybercrime-treaty-could-threaten-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/new-u-n-cybercrime-treaty-could-threaten-human-rights","title":{"rendered":"New U.N. Cybercrime Treaty Could Threaten Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-u-n-cybercrime-treaty-could-threaten-human-rights2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recently adopted United Nations treaty could lead to invasive digital surveillance, human rights experts warn.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/kate-graham-shaw\/\">Kate Graham-Shaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK CITY \u2014The United Nations approved its first international cybercrime treaty yesterday. The effort succeeded despite opposition from tech companies and human rights groups, who warn that the agreement will permit countries to expand invasive electronic surveillance in the name of criminal investigations. Experts from these organizations say that the treaty undermines the global human rights of freedom of speech and expression because it contains clauses that countries could interpret to internationally prosecute <i>any<\/i> perceived crime that takes place on a computer system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently adopted United Nations treaty could lead to invasive digital surveillance, human rights experts warn. By Kate Graham-Shaw NEW YORK CITY \u2014The United Nations approved its first international cybercrime treaty yesterday. The effort succeeded despite opposition from tech companies and human rights groups, who warn that the agreement will permit countries to expand invasive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5,1511,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-geopolitics","category-surveillance","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}