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Kate Robertson on the Risks That Lie Behind Canada’s Unexpected Signing of the UN Cybercrime Convention

Earlier this month, the Canadian government announced that it had signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime. Speaking with Michael Geist of Law Bytes, senior research associate Kate Robertson argues that the convention is a cross-border surveillance and electronic evidence sharing agreement that Canada originally opposed, which carries significant adverse implications around the world for […] The post Kate Robertson on the Risks That Lie Behind Canada’s Unexpected Signing of the UN

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Published: 31 July 2026
Source: The Citizen Lab
Category: Field notes
Topics: Regulation · Privacy
Retrieved: 1 August 2026

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ethics.ai (31 July 2026), “Kate Robertson on the Risks That Lie Behind Canada’s Unexpected Signing of the UN Cybercrime Convention,” evidence record 15344, https://ethics.ai/record/15344 (originally published by The Citizen Lab).

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