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[FYI] Storage of communication data is the 'weak link' in the fight against computercrime says EU study



http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/7632/1.html

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Computer Crime in the European Union  

Jelle van Buuren   14.05.2001  

Storage of communication data is the 'weak link' in the fight against 
computercrime says EU study  

How serious is the threat of computer crime in the European Union? 
What are the Member States of the Union doing to counter the threat? 
France and Sweden asked their European counterparts in November 2000 
this questions. The answers are now circulating in the Police 
Cooperation Working Party of the EU.  

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The questionannaire also makes clear what the member states would 
like to see the European institutions tackle in the near future:  

Standardisation or at least harmonisation of legislation and 
ratification and implementation of the draft Convention on Cyber 
Crime of the Council of Europe. This would represent 'considerable 
progress' in the fight against computer crime Storage of technical 
data. The Belgian example, providing for a minimum period of 12 
month, is called "the most balanced solution both from the point of 
view of the principle of protection of privacy and in terms of the 
need for judicial investigation in order to respect the rights of 
victims to obtain compensation for damage suffered". Encouriging 
industry to speed up the establishment of version 6 of the Internet 
Protocol, "having regard to the new safeguards proposed to achieve a 
considerable reduction in piracy via the Internet". A solution should 
be found to problems raised by the various forms of anonymity on the 
WWW, "the most significant example being cybercafés, which have been 
the source of a number of cases of fraud." Developing coordination 
between the private sector, laboratories, universities and state 
bodies to provide appropriate repsonses to new modes of operation by 
cyber criminals The creation at European level of an observatory or 
cell for the protection of networks  

The study concludes that at the beginning of the third millenium 
computer crime is developing "extremely well" in a supranational 
context in which national criminal law is generally inappropriate and 
Community law is still at the embryonic stage."  

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