Privacy Camp 2018: Exchange with policy makers - Government hacking for surveillance.
Channel: European Digital Rights
Date: 28/02/2018

Speakers:

- Ralf Bendrath, Senior Policy Adviser, European Parliament
- Juraj Sajfert, Policy Officer, European Commission, DG Justice and consumers
- Kees Verhoeven, Dutch MP, Democrats 66 [TBC]
- Raphaël Vinot CERT Operator, CIRCL – Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg
Moderator: Scarlet Kim, Legal Officer, Privacy International

This session brought European and national policy-makers and experts to discuss emerging efforts to regulate government hacking as a form of surveillance.

Presentations on some of the key challenges surrounding government hacking will be followed by a Q&A.

Among the questions addressed:

Why do governments hack?
How do we conceptualise cybersecurity? What are the challenges in defending cybersecurity? How do we embed cybersecurity into discussions about government hacking?
What are the challenges in regulating government hacking?
Are some methods of acquiring vulnerabilities and exploits off-limits or should they be? Which ones?
Should governments ever use zero-days to hack? Should they be limited to using known vulnerabilities? Should they be permitted to impersonate known and trusted third parties?
What should the relationship be between vulnerability disclosure and government hacking?
What recourse should there be for those who have been collaterally affected?