A Geneva Digital Convention indeed is an idea whose time has come. The individual is now part of the virtual world and it is necessary to have rules/regulations at the international level binding states on the digital rights of the individual in as much as the Geneva Convention does in the physical world. I cannot agree more with the conversation prompted by the Microsoft president. On 9 Apr 2017 09:18, "Ali Hussein via kictanet" < [email protected]> wrote:
Listers
A worthy conversation to have.
Technology companies must retain the trust of their customers and must not assist governments with their hacking schemes even though world leaders may request them to do so.
As an example of how technology companies can work together, he cited how Microsoft was impressed with other big tech companies like Google <http://fortune.com/fortune500/alphabet-36/> (GOOG, -0.39%) <http://fortune.com/company/goog> and Facebook (FB, -0.28%) <http://fortune.com/company/fb> in how they notified their users when their accounts may have been compromised <https://www.wired.com/2015/10/facebook-now-warns-users-of-state-sponsored-attacks/> in state-sponsored attacks.
Read on:-
http://fortune.com/2017/02/14/microsoft-president-digital- geneva-convention/
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