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[return to "EFF’s concerns about the UN Cybercrime Convention"]
1. comman+xT7[view] [source] 2024-08-13 18:49:48
>>walter+(OP)
Looks like, unsurprisingly, the resolution is more about mandating censorship than it is about curbing actual crime. I'm pretty pessimistic about the future of a free internet - there have been lots of attempts at censorship-resistant protocols, but they require widespread adoption. If they haven't already been adopted, I doubt they ever will.
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2. fngjdf+Oa8[view] [source] 2024-08-13 20:25:00
>>comman+xT7
Does it actually mandate any censorship/data collection, or does it just mandate that collected data must be shared? I tried reading the actual PDF[0] but I don't really want to read the whole thing

[0] https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/v24/055/06/pdf/v24055...

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3. ziddoa+Pc8[view] [source] 2024-08-13 20:35:10
>>fngjdf+Oa8
Articles 29, 30, and 45 are the relevant ones which touch on data collection.
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4. fngjdf+7e8[view] [source] 2024-08-13 20:42:02
>>ziddoa+Pc8
Ok, so they are mandating data collection:

>Each State Party shall adopt such legislative and other measures as may be necessary to empower its competent authorities to: (a) Collect or record, through the application of technical means in the territory of that State Party; and (b) Compel a service provider, within its existing technical capability: (i) To collect or record, through the application of technical means in the territory of that State Party; or (ii) To cooperate and assist the competent authorities in the collection or recording of; traffic data, in real time, associated with specified communications in its territory transmitted by means of an information and communications technology system.

That is pretty bad. Some parts of this draft actually seemed pretty reasonable - eg. Article 14 making CSAM illegal. I guess that is part of the trick.

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