The work of the 146th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union began today in Bahrain, with the participation of a delegation from the House of Representatives, consisting of MPs Mr. In his intervention during the meeting of the Standing Committee on Peace and International Security, on the topic "Cyber attacks and cyber crime: New threats to global security", Mr. Kyprianou referred to the dramatic increase in the use of new information and communication technologies and the corresponding increase in cyber-attacks against users, governmental and private organizations and even governments. The pandemic and successive restrictions, Kyprianou said, forced users to work, train and trade online, which led to the exposure of their personal data and information to the digital environment.
Speaking about the role that national parliaments can play, both to safeguard the rights of their citizens from cyber-attacks and to deal effectively with cyber-crime, Kyprianou stressed that the adoption of strong legislation and a new international framework to prevent and combat cyber-attacks and cyber-crime is a priority. Parliaments should support efforts at the UN level to adopt a comprehensive international convention to combat the use of information and communication technologies for criminal purposes, he stressed. Such a convention, Kyprianou pointed out, could be used as a basis for strengthening existing national legislation and for further promoting international cooperation against crime and cyber attacks.
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