Cybersecurity
Biden Administration to Support Controversial UN Cyber Treaty
- Critics fear it could be misused by authoritarian countries
- Agreement would help pursuit of cybercriminals, official says
Joe Biden speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on Nov. 7.
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The Biden administration plans to support a controversial cybercrime treaty at the United Nations this week despite concerns that it could be misused by authoritarian regimes, according to senior government officials.
The agreement would be the first legally binding UN agreement on cybersecurity and could become a global legal framework for countries to cooperate on preventing and investigating cybercriminals. However, critics fear it could be used by authoritarian states to try to pursue dissidents overseas or collect data from political opponents.