UN Cybercrime Treaty Could Endanger Web Security

The piece outlines Google’s position on the UN Cybercrime Treaty (Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes), urging member states to adopt transparent, rule-of-law–based, human-rights–respecting frameworks for cross-border digital evidence, grounded in necessity and proportionality. It cautions against criminalizing legitimate security research, references Google’s Transparency Report and support for the Security Researcher Legal Defense Fund, and calls for addressing civil society’s identified gaps to strengthen global cybersecurity.