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Microsoft criticises proposed UN cybercrime treaty.
Microsoft’s main concerns are that the treaty should not provide an avenue for authoritarian states to criminalise online content, introduce new surveillance powers, expand cross-border government access to personal data, or potentially criminalise common security practices because of ambiguity in the text. UN treaty (drafted by UN Cybercrime Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime) released in…