Biden Administration Backs Controversial UN Cybercrime Treaty

The treaty aims to enhance global cooperation against cybercrime but faces criticism over potential human rights abuses.

The Biden administration supports a UN treaty on cybercrime, marking the first legally binding international agreement on the issue.
The treaty includes measures to combat child sexual abuse material and improve cross-border information sharing and extradition processes.
Critics, including human rights organizations and some US lawmakers, warn the treaty could enable authoritarian regimes to justify censorship and surveillance.
Russia and China, previously excluded from the Budapest Convention on cybercrime, are included in this new UN initiative, raising concerns about the influence of these nations.
The treaty requires a two-thirds majority in the US Senate for ratification, posing a significant hurdle for its adoption in the United States.