GENEVA - UN member states are set to sidestep a call for a moratorium on commercial spyware, deciding instead to commission a study of how digital technology affects human rights, according to a draft
UN human rights resolution seen by Reuters.
His report last month said he had detailed testimony about governments using spyware developed and supported by private companies, and that surveillance of journalists and dissidents had been linked to arbitrary detention, torture and possibly extrajudicial killings. Chinese envoy Zhu Huilan accused Kaye of making "wanton remarks" about China in his report, and said it was international practice to use modern technology and big data to "enhance social order" and prevent crime.
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