An international effort to create voluntary standards for the commercial cyber intrusion industry is wrestling with questions like who they should apply to, how to incentivize and measure compliance and what to do with companies with a checkered past. The first round of the Pall Mall Process focused on a code of conduct for government…
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Cyber experts offer lukewarm praise for voluntary code governing use of commercial hacking tools
Cybersecurity professionals who participated in discussions over a code of conduct for nations to use commercial hacking tools said the final voluntary guidelines offer modest promise, even if they fall short of what some wanted. The next step for the joint France/U.K.-led Pall Mall Process, which last week got 21 signatories to the code, is…
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21 Countries Sign Onto Voluntary Pact to Stem the Proliferation of Spyware
Twenty-one countries signed onto the Pall Mall Process, an effort a year in the making that was created to develop a framework nations could adopt to address the proliferation and malicious use of spyware by governments that want it to track human rights workers, activists, journalists, and other such targets. The post 21 Countries Sign…
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Voluntary ‘Pall Mall Process’ seeks to curb spyware abuses
Twenty-one nations signed on to a voluntary accord last week in Paris to govern the use of commercial hacking tools commonly known as spyware, after more than a year of work on the agreement. The Pall Mall Process, or Code of Practices for States, has four pillars for the responsible use of the surveillance tech,…