This post was made on 11/13/2018.
This Monday, the Internet Governance Forum was held in Paris and French president Emmanuel Macron announced a declaration called “Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace”.
This declaration (which is linked here.) focuses on bringing government and companies together in order to make the Internet more secure and safe. It will also deal with “fake news” and malicious cyberattacks by trying to prevent them with this more secure Internet.
The declaration has many big supporters like; Google Facebook, Microsoft and many more big tech companies. It also has garnered the support of other countries governments who are as listed; Canada, UK, Ireland and Germany.
It should also be noted that big governments like the U.S., China and Russia are not on this list and this could have all sorts of implications. Perhaps these governments are dealing with the safety of the Internet in their own ways or perhaps these governments don’t trust each other.
The U.S. is trying to deal with cyberattacks in a more aggressive way (I wrote about that here.) and God knows if China and Russia are even taking cyber security seriously. Either way these countries should be all for a more secure Internet that protects government data better. If we worked together with big tech companies and governments from all across the world then we would be able to make way more progress in cyber security that makes the Internet better for everyone. I personally think these big countries don’t trust each other with their data in fear that it could be used against them and I also think these countries are using shady cyber methods that would be questioned by this declaration. It’s a real shame these countries just can’t get along to fight the growing concern of cyberattacks and “fake news”.
If we all worked together to come up with a way to make the Internet more safe and secure, then everyone would benefit from this. But as it stands right now we have some countries working with this declaration but none of the big players are participating in this which makes progress a lot slower. Hopefully this declaration will have positive results in the future and show that if we work together then we can fight cyber threats effectively.
Source: In Paris, Government and Tech Giants Commit to a more Secure Cyberspace
Cyberleech 