*Representatives of civil society state that the proposed text contains regulations that leave the way for the abuse of states in the surveillance of journalists and political dissidents The ad-hoc Committee for the elaboration of a comprehensive international convention on combating the use of information and communication technologies for criminal purposes, within the UN, starts today, in New York, a new round of debates and negotiations regarding the new United Nations treaty on cybercrime, the discussions being scheduled to be completed on September 1, 2023.
