UN draft text on digital rights ducks call for spyware moratorium


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 02 Jul 2019

Men work on top of a scaffolding underneath CCTV surveillance cameras in Beijing, China, November 12, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/Files

GENEVA: UN member states are set to sidestep a call for a moratorium on commercial spyware, deciding instead to commission a study of how digital technology affects human rights, according to a draft UN human rights resolution seen by Reuters.

If adopted by the UN Human Rights Council at the end of next week, the resolution would set up a panel discussion at the Council's session in June 2020, with a wide-ranging report completed a year later.

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