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December 2, 2021 10:40 pm
Original Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/12/02/2116247/white-house-to-unveil-alliance-to-curb-human-rights-abuse-of-tech?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_m
White House To Unveil Alliance To Curb Human Rights Abuse of Tech
The White House will unveil a group of countries next week that have pledged to work together to curb exports of technology that can be used by bad actors and repressive governments to violate human rights, senior administration officials said on Thursday. Reuters reports: The announcement, which will be made as part of U.S. President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy, is aimed at addressing "the misuse of certain dual-use technologies that can lead to human rights abuses" and ensuring "critical and emerging technologies work for and not against democratic societies," the officials told reporters in a briefing call. The officials declined to name the countries that would join the group or the technologies or users targeted by it, but said members would develop and adopt a "written nonbinding code of conduct or statement of principles intended to guide the application of human rights criteria to export licensing policy." The officials singled out China as an example of a nation that has misused technology to control its population.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/12/02/2116247/white-house-to-unveil-alliance-to-curb-human-rights-abuse-of-tech?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_m
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