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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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