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Microsoft's President Brad Smith is calling for a Digital Geneva Convention:
Microsoft is calling for a Digital Geneva Convention, as global tensions over digital attacks continue to rise. The tech giant wants to see civilian use of the internet protected as part of an international set of accords, Brad Smith, the company's president and chief legal officer, said in a blog post.
The manifesto, published alongside his keynote address at the RSA conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, argued for codifying recent international norms around cyberwarfare and for establishing an independent agency to respond to and analyze cyberattacks.
From the blog post:
Just as the Fourth Geneva Convention has long protected civilians in times of war, we now need a Digital Geneva Convention that will commit governments to protecting civilians from nation-state attacks in times of peace. And just as the Fourth Geneva Convention recognized that the protection of civilians required the active involvement of the Red Cross, protection against nation-state cyberattacks requires the active assistance of technology companies. The tech sector plays a unique role as the internet's first responders, and we therefore should commit ourselves to collective action that will make the internet a safer place, affirming a role as a neutral Digital Switzerland that assists customers everywhere and retains the world's trust.
Also at The Seattle Times and USA Today.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Wednesday February 15 2017, @08:50PM
The fact is that the everyday person does need digital rights. However no cares has the consumer's interests.
The governments want to surveil everyone... They want to find extremists both in and out of their own country and keep ahead of the other countries. Many are even willing to do state sponsored industrial espionage to help their won economy. Lets be blunt... they don't care if they impact their own citizens either... and even happy to turn that overt surveillance into a win by solving a few misdemeanors for the "common good."
Corporations already know what you are doing online. Hell, most people tell them voluntarily for use of a few baubles. After all, the ability to "poke" someone is well worth turning all my profile information over to some company I never heard of. Microsoft definitely wants to keep this ability... They probably just don't want to hand the information over for free... they probably want to charge the governments just as much for supeopnas as they do to their business partners.
In realit the one thing that people need most is anonymity, not to be tracked everywhere you go online, and affordable high speed access... and no business or government wants to stick up for the rights of everyone in the world when their true goal is the opposite.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P