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------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Mon, 15 May 2000 01:03:09 -0400 To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: G8 officials meet in Paris this week to discuss computer crime Send reply to: declan@well.com
Officials from the G8 nations are meeting in Paris this week for a summit on "cybercrime." It is being organized by the French-Japanese co-presidency: http://www.un.int/france/declarations/PP/pponu/000211E.html
The BBC reports the summit is designed to fix "legal loopholes" and discuss additional criminal laws: http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/world/europe/newsid_748000/748597.stm
At the last G8 "cybercrime" summit last fall, delegates reportedly said they wanted to require Internet providers to keep copies of users' email for three months: http://www.politechbot.com/p-00696.html
The U.S. heads the G8 cybercrime working group. Scott Charney, at the time the Justice Department's representative, said in July 1999 that the G8 group was debating the three-month storage requirement, surveillance, and encryption: http://jya.com/g8-charney.htm
This comes as the U.S. and other countries are trying to advance a global "cybercrime" treaty using the Council of Europe. The draft treaty would grant police more powers and in some ways restrict privacy, and Janet Reno has said the G-8 would be another vehicle for similar agreements: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,36047,00.html
Here's a report on an earlier May 1998 G8 high-level meeting: http://www.techserver.com/newsroom/ntn/info/051498/info1_17188_noframes.html
Concidentally, the Washington Post on Sunday ran a front-page article as a Love Bug followup. It said not enough countries had computer crime laws and warned of an international "growing population of young hackers who are only too happy to experiment and take their chances with the law": http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62575-2000May13.html
G8 justice and interior ministers also met via videoconference in December 1998. The ministers made very brief introductory remarks before reporters were kicked out of the room: http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/1998/g8videoconference.htm
I'd be interested in seeing details of what's being discussed this week. Unfortunately, if history is any indication, not much will be released to the press or the public.
-Declan
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