[FYI] The Fight against Cyber-Crime: The Need for Special Training on Digital Evidence

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.jrc.es/pages/iptsreport/vol57/english/ICT3E576.htm  

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The Fight against Cyber-Crime: The Need for Special Training on 
Digital Evidence  

Eric Freyssinet, Gendarmerie Nationale, France  

Issue: Combating cyber-crime is one of the greatest challenges facing 
society today, and efforts to tackle it involve law enforcement 
authorities, industry and the public. The dangers at stake have been 
widely pointed out by the media, and underlined in recent official 
statements, such as the European Commission communication of 2000 on 
a safer information society – COM (2000) 890. Digital evidence is key 
to the detection and prosecution of the perpetrators of both cyber 
crime and an increasing portion of other categories of crime.  

Relevance: Computers, the Internet and a wide variety of digital 
devices have now become a familiar part of citizens’ everyday lives. 
They are also familiar to criminals. Fighting crime today means 
taking into account all possible sources of information or evidence, 
and this increasingly includes digital evidence. When fighting high-
technology crime this kind of evidence is even more necessary. Law 
enforcement authorities, lawyers and judges need to become familiar 
with these new tools, which means proper training is necessary at all 
levels.  

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