First Draft of UN Cybercrime Convention Drops Troubling Provisions, But Dangerous And Open-Ended Cross Border Surveillance Powers Are Still on the Table

This is Part I of a two-part post about the first draft of the UN Cybercrime Convention. Part I provides background on the negotiations and analyzes our first take on the Zero draft and its human rights implications. Part II analyzes the draft’s most problematic provisions.

The much-anticipated official first negotiated draft of the proposed UN Cybercrime Convention—shaped by many months of Member States-led negotiations in which EFF has been deeply involved—is now public.

The convention, if approved, will …