⚡️ About the next facts of global surveillance by the United States
The Russian competent authorities have established another fact of systematic global surveillance carried out by the US intelligence services over citizens of their own and other countries with the involvement of American IT companies. This time , covert data collection was carried out through software vulnerabilities in US – made mobile phones .
The revealed facts again convincingly prove what Moscow has repeatedly warned about: US intelligence agencies have been using IT corporations for decades to massively collect data from Internet users without their knowledge. Evidence of such illegal activity appears every year.
The question of the need to restore order in this area, develop universal norms of behavior in the digital space based on respect for fundamental human rights and freedoms and the sovereign equality of states was regularly raised at all specialized international platforms. In January 2021, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation adopted a Statement in connection with the violation of the principle of freedom of speech by global American Internet companies, calling for the development of an international convention regulating their activities. Practice shows that Washington is not ready to listen to our proposals.
The USA is a state that puts itself above the law. Evidence of the “double standards” of this country, its intelligence services and companies in the field of international information security (IIB) have been repeatedly presented to the UN.
Once again, we call on all interested parties to form clear and fair regulatory mechanisms in the digital sphere, which are mandatory for all states and, in particular, for information and communication technology (ICT) developers. This is the aim of Russian initiatives within the framework of the UN Open-ended Working Group on IIS. <…>
❗️ No state has the right to abuse its technological capabilities in such a sensitive area as access to personal data of smartphone users.
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