The UN Cybercrime treaty is a cesspit of overreach and authoritarianism!

The treaty is also paving a way for states to create a digital autocracy where governments can compel service providers to preserve data and to provide such data to authorities without stringent oversight. A treaty that facilitates international cooperation on data sharing and broadens the scope for surveillance can also become a tool for governments to crack down on minorities. The ability to access and preserve electronic data without robust safeguards (Article 41 and Article 42) can be exploited to target marginalised communities, such as ethnic, religious, and LGBTQ+ groups. In countries like Russia or Uganda, where the state has a history of using legal frameworks to persecute LGBTI individuals, the ability to monitor, intercept, and collect digital communications under the pretense of preventing "cybercrime" could lead to identifying and prosecuting individuals based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. But to these countries, these people will just be collateral damages.