[kictanet] Microsoft President Brad Smith Calls For a Digital Geneva Convention | Fortune.com

[florence mwangangi]

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" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 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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