Council of Europe Launches Negotiations on the Second Protocol To the Cybercrime Convention

On September 18, 2017, Joe McNamee, Executive Director of advocacy group European Digital Rights (EDRi), acting on behalf of a global coalition of civil society organizations, submitted to Alexander Seger, the Executive Secretary of the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) of the Council of Europe, an opinion on the proposed protocol to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. The comments focus on the protection of human rights in the process of drafting new rules on cross-border access to electronic evidence (“e-evidence”).