EFF: What’s the Emergency? Keeping International Requests for Law Enforcement Access Secure and Safe for Internet Users
What’s the Emergency? Keeping International Requests for Law Enforcement Access Secure and Safe for Internet Users Law enforcement access to data is in the middle of a profound shake-up across the globe . States are pushing to get quicker, deeper, and more invasive access to personal data stored on the global Internet, and are looking to water down the international safeguards around privacy and due process in the name of “speed” and “modernization.” One part of that push is concentrated on the Council of Europe’s Cybercrime Convention (also known as the “Budapest Convention”) — an international instrument, ratified by the United States and over 60 countries around the world , that spells out the procedures, checks and balances when law enforcement from another nation needs to comply with when requesting digital data held in another jurisdiction. The Council of Europe’s Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) is currently drafting an update in the form of a ...