U.N. member states are set to sidestep a call for a moratorium on commercial spyware, deciding instead to commission a study of how digital technology affects human rights, according to a draft U.N. human rights resolution seen by Reuters. If adopted by the U.N. Human Rights Council at the end of next week, the resolution would set up a panel discussion at the Council’s session in June 2020, with a wide-ranging report completed a year later... His report last month said he had detailed testimony about governments using spyware developed and supported by private companies, and that surveillance of journalists and dissidents had been linked to arbitrary detention, torture and possibly extrajudicial killings. The draft resolution made no mention of Kaye’s report, but said the “impacts, opportunities and challenges of rapid technological change... are not fully understood”, and called for further study.