WISeKey Joins Multistakeholder Manifesto on Cybercrime
September 30 2021 - 1:00AM
WISeKey
Joins Multistakeholder Manifesto on
Cybercrime
Multistakeholder Manifesto
Prioritizes Human-Centric
Equities within the Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty
Geneva, Switzerland – September 30, 2021 -
WISeKey International Holding Ltd (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX: WIHN), a
leading cyber security, IoT, and AI platform company, today
announced that it has joined over 50 global organizations and has
become a signatory of the Multistakeholder Manifesto on Cybercrime
(“Manifesto”) aiming to raise awareness of the
upcoming United Nations (“UN”) negotiations on cybercrime and
prioritize human-centric equities within the proposed UN Cybercrime
Treaty.
In 2019, the UN General Assembly, following a
proposal of the Russian Federation, passed the resolution creating
an open-ended, ad hoc, intergovernmental committee of experts for a
new cybercrime treaty to “elaborate a comprehensive international
convention on countering the use of information and communication
technologies for criminal purposes.” Negotiations are set to
commence in January 2022 with a tight timeline.
The proponents of the new treaty dramatically
extend what is currently understood to be cybercrime by defining it
more broadly. This could lead to serious societal impacts and
government regulation that could undermine privacy, criminalize
free expression, and change the role of governments in regulating
the Internet, as well as actively undermine existing frameworks
carefully built to work against cybercrime.
In response, civil society and industry — under
the leadership of the CyberPeace Institute and the Cybersecurity
Tech Accord— are coming together to launch the Multistakeholder
Manifesto on Cybercrime. The aim being to put forward a set of
principles and processes to help governments protect our rights and
freedoms online in treaty negotiations at the UN.
The set of key principles are to:
- Create
opportunities for the private sector and civil society to
participate in the negotiation process and make sure the process is
as transparent as possible
- Agree that decisions are taken by
consensus and not unilaterally
- Clarify the scope of the negotiations
so it is limited to actual cybercrime and does not endanger the
open and free internet we know today
- Ensure that the
outcome does not put existing commitments, such as those enshrined
in the Budapest Convention, into doubt
- Focus on protecting
the victims of cybercrime and associate accountability
mechanisms.
Cyberspace has become an escalating domain of
conflict, as seen by the rise in frequency, scale and
sophistication of attacks. Threats to our collective security have
spiked, with cybercrime posing new risks to our societies. Though
cybercrime is dangerous, a newly proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty
could undermine human rights.
Industry and civil society, under the leadership
of the CyberPeace Institute and the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, are
coming together to launch the Multistakeholder Manifesto on
Cybercrime to highlight a set of principles and processes for
states to protect the rights and liberties needed to achieve a
free, open, secure and peaceful cyberspace, and strengthen the
respect for rule of law in this domain.
The Manifesto stresses that a new treaty must
not be used to undermine existing international legal obligations.
Instead, it should focus on building accountability associated with
those obligations and on enforcing international cooperation.
Moreover, it must preserve the open internet by not providing any
justification or pretext for a state to further endanger it by
closing off its digital borders.
The Manifesto and its principles reinforce the
notion that for any international law against cybercrime to be
effective, it needs to focus on the victims of cybercrime and
provide them with effective tools of redress.
To establish the right process at the UN, there
needs to be 1) meaningful multistakeholder consultation and
involvement, 2) transparency, as appropriate, 3) clarity in the
scope of what is categorized as cybercrime and 4) the adoption of a
consensus driven approach.
About WISeKeyWISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss
Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global cybersecurity company currently
deploying large scale digital identity ecosystems for people and
objects using Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the
Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the
pervasive computing shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey
IoT has an install base of over 1.6 billion microchips in virtually
all IoT sectors (connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural
sensors, anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers,
mobile phones, crypto tokens etc.). WISeKey is uniquely
positioned to be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a
huge amount of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial
Intelligence (AI), can help industrial applications to predict the
failure of their equipment before it happens.
Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s Swiss based
cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides secure authentication
and identification, in both physical and virtual environments, for
the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. The
WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to ensure the integrity
of online transactions among objects and between objects and
people. For more information, visit www.wisekey.com.
Press and investor contacts:
WISeKey
International Holding LtdCompany Contact: Carlos
MoreiraChairman & CEOTel: +41 22 594
3000info@wisekey.com |
WISeKey
Investor Relations (US)Contact: Lena CatiThe Equity
Group Inc.Tel: +1 212 836-9611lcati@equityny.com |
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