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