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Submission + - Russia proposes international cybersecurity treaty (theregister.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Russian Federation has prepared a project of an international treaty "United Nations Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes" (PDF, original in Russian) to be considered by United Nations. It prohibits the creation of malware (unless for lawful purposes) and criminalises other 23 behaviours, including some forms of political expression. "Russia's proposed rule expansion, for example, calls for domestic laws to criminalize changing digital information without permission – "the intentional unauthorized interference with digital information by damaging, deleting, altering, blocking, modifying it, or copying of digital information." The draft also directs members states to formulate domestic laws to disallow unsanctioned malware research – "the intentional creation, including adaptation, use and distribution of malicious software intended for the unauthorized destruction, blocking, modification, copying, dissemination of digital information, or neutralization of its security features, except for lawful research."". The move directly follows the June meeting of Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden. Dr Lukasz Olejnik, a former cyberwarfare advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva said that "with the political process of the UN, who knows what happens in a few months".

Submission + - Biden Says Platforms Like Facebook Are 'Killing People' With COVID-19 Misinforma (theverge.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The White House escalated its fight against vaccine misinformation on Friday, with President Biden directly criticizing Facebook and other platforms for allowing vaccine misinformation to spread — and consequently raising the ongoing death toll from the deadly pandemic. Asked for a message to platforms like Facebook, Biden replied, “They’re killing people ... the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and they’re killing people.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for clarification of the president’s comments. The full exchange is embedded [here].

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