The Rome Statute in the Digital Age: Confronting Emerging Cyber Threats

The Rome Statute in the Digital Age: Confronting Emerging Cyber Threats

When Edward Snowden leaked National Security Agency (NSA) documents more than a decade ago and exposed the breadth of U.S. government surveillance operations worldwide, the threat of invasive cyber capabilities was limited to a handful of state powers. Non-state actors lacked the technical capacity, infrastructure, and resources to replicate the NSA’s global dragnet. Since then, the threat landscape has changed significantly, and those limitatio…