Kate Robertson
@KateRobertson_
human rights, tech, law | senior research associate @CitizenLab @UofT @munkschool | former criminal lawyer and @SCC_eng clerk | tweets mine
From @citizenlab's @RonDeibert in @macleans: The U.S. Wants Canada to Become A Police State macleans.ca/politics/the-u…
In an open letter to @melaniejoly, @DLeBlancNB & @viraniarif, NGOs and individual experts, including Citizen Lab’s @RonDeibert, @nouraaljizawi, @jon_penney, and @KateRobertson_, urge Canada to reject adoption of the UN’s draft Convention against Cybercrime. Read the letter on…
Canada urged to not sign ‘deeply flawed’ UN cybercrime treaty /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…
🚨 An important op-ed from @nouraaljizawi about the massive leak of personal data of over 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey timep.org/2024/08/21/loc…
NEW oped from @citizenlab's @KateRobertson_ Why the UN's new "Global Cybercrime Treaty" is a huge problem for human security and human rights, and a big boon for mercenary spyware abuse 👇 lawfaremedia.org/article/a-glob…
My article in @Lawfare this week on the UN's proposed cybercrime treaty - "A Global Treaty to Fight Cybercrime—Without Combating Mercenary Spyware":
"Mandating cross-border cooperation without mandating robust human rights commitments is not a tenable path forward in the fight against transnational cybercrime." @KateRobertson_ on the UN cybercrime treaty’s failure to counter mercenary spyware. lawfaremedia.org/article/a-glob…