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Pegasus och annan statlig spyware sågas av FN-kommissionär

16 september 2021 av Henrik Alexandersson 1 kommentar

Europarådet har hållit en utfrågning kring spionprogramvaran Pegasus, som enligt uppgift använts för att övervaka journalister, oppositionella och politiker runt om i världen. Bland annat medverkade FN:s människorättskommissionär Michelle Bachelet. Här är ett par citat ur hennes anförande.

»Without minimal safeguards and control, expensive and highly intrusive technologies will continue to be used to monitor voices regarded as critical or hostile at home and abroad. These technologies, that detect and exploit vulnerabilities of digital communications without leaving any trace will keep being used as weapons to silence dissent and punish independent reporting.«

»First and foremost, the human rights law applicable here is clear: surveillance measures can only be justified in narrowly defined circumstances, based on the law. In addition, such measures must be both necessary and proportionate to a legitimate goal. Government hacking at the scale reported is never going to meet these criteria.«

Det skall tilläggas att även svenska myndigheter använder Pegasus eller snarlik spyware för övervakning, inom ramen för hemlig dataavläsning.

• Statement by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet »

Samtidigt, i FN…

3 april 2020 av Henrik Alexandersson Lämna en kommentar

»The United Nations announced earlier this week that it is partnering with Chinese tech giant Tencent to facilitate an international campaign to mark the body’s 75th anniversary. But news of the partnership has raised questions about the security of Chinese tech, especially given Tencent’s role as a comprehensive surveillance tool for the Chinese state.

In a statement, the UN said that Tencent will provide “videoconferencing and digital dialogue tools” to hold “thousands of conversations online” for the anniversary campaign, which aims to “reach out to millions of people across the globe to listen to their thoughts.«

Länk: The UN is partnering with China’s biggest surveillance software company »

Oro för censur med FN:s nya resolution om cyberbrott

30 december 2019 av Henrik Alexandersson Lämna en kommentar

The Daily Mail rapporterar:

»The United Nations has approved a Russian-backed cybercrime treaty that has alarmed America and Western powers who fear it will censor the internet.

The General Assembly approved the resolution, sponsored by Russia and backed by China, on Friday.«

Eftersom detta är en fråga som redan hanteras av en expertgrupp – och eftersom resolutionen stöds av länder som Ryssland och Kina – kan det vara klokt att ana ugglor i mossen. Det förefaller som om man vill förekomma den nuvarande expertgruppen, av politiska skäl.

»The (US) ambassador alongside the Finnish representative speaking for the European Union both stressed that the UN’s existing intergovernmental expert group on cybercrime is already tackling the question of whether a new treaty is needed.

’It is wrong to make a political decision on a new treaty before cybercrime experts can give their advice,’ Ms Chalet said, adding that the resolution ’prejudges’ and ’will undermine’ the experts’ work.«

Länk: UN approves Russia-backed ’cybercrime’ treaty that America and Western powers say will censor the internet »