Description: This workshop will focus on the UN Cybercrime treaty, which is due to be adopted in August 2024. The discussion will center on fostering a safe and secure online environment while maintaining trust, data protection, and privacy in the governance of the Internet. At its core, the discussion will promote ensuring that enforcement of the UN Cybercrime treaty respects human rights and prevents cross-border rights abuses. The workshop will discuss the treaty’s potential to facilitate transnational repression as a result of the legal regimes it is likely to create. Specifically, the draft treaty provides for the cross-border sharing of information for any crimes that carry a minimum sentence of three or four years, in a manner that would infringe on international human rights standards, including the requirements for prior judicial authorization and the principles of legality, non discrimination, legitimate purpose, necessity, and proportionality. The workshop will examine the potential for this treaty to permit surveillance on a broad range of crimes, beyond cybercrime, and facilitate transnational repression. The speakers will provide an overview of the UN Cybercrime treaty, explain the international cooperation measures provided for by the treaty and assess the treaty against international human rights norms, provide a case study of how the treaty will facilitate cross border repression, and provide a company perspective.
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