21 nations have signed a voluntary accord governing the use of commercial hacking tools, or spyware. The agreement had been in the works for over a year, and was finally signed in Paris last week. The accord is the Pall Mall Process, or Code of Practices for States, and is made up of four pillars on the responsible use of surveillance tech. The four pillars are “commercial cyber intrusion capabilities” (CCICs): accountability, precision, transparency, and oversight. This is the second major international voluntary effort to counter commercial spyware misuse, responding to the growing market for commercial hacking tools.

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