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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.

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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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