In 2020, the General Assembly by decision 75/240, established a brand new five-year open-ended working group on safety of and in using data and communications applied sciences 2021–2025.

The group is remitted to additional develop the foundations, norms and ideas of accountable behaviour of States; to think about initiatives of States geared toward making certain safety in using data and communications applied sciences; to ascertain, below the auspices of the United Nations, common institutional dialogue with the broad participation of States; to proceed to review, with a view to selling frequent understandings, present and potential threats within the sphere of data safety, inter alia, knowledge safety, and doable cooperative measures to forestall and counter such threats, and the way worldwide legislation applies to using data and communications applied sciences by States, in addition to confidence-building measures and capacity-building.