"The Convention obligates states to establish broad electronic surveillance powers to investigate and cooperate on a wide range of crimes-including those unrelated to information and communication systems-without adequate human rights safeguards. It requires governments to collect, obtain, preserve, and share electronic evidence with foreign authorities for any "serious crime"-defined as an offense punishable under domestic law by at least four years' imprisonment (or a higher penalty)."
"In today's digital era, nearly every message or call generates granular metadata-revealing who communicates with whom, when, and from where-that routinely traverses national borders through global networks. The UN cybercrime convention, as currently written, risks enabling states to leverage its expansive cross-border data-access and cooperation mechanisms to obtain such information for political surveillance-abusing the Convention's mechanisms to monitor critics, pressure their families, and target marginalized communities abroad."
The Convention obligates states to establish broad electronic surveillance powers to investigate and cooperate on a wide range of crimes, including offenses unrelated to information systems, without adequate human rights safeguards. Governments are required to collect, obtain, preserve, and share electronic evidence with foreign authorities for any 'serious crime' defined as offenses punishable by at least four years' imprisonment. In many jurisdictions, peaceful speech, nonconforming sexual orientation or gender identity, and peaceful protest can meet that threshold. Granular metadata routinely crosses borders, and the Convention's cross-border data-access mechanisms risk enabling political surveillance, pressure on families, and targeting of marginalized communities abroad. These harms are likely to be severe and difficult to prevent in practice.
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