Slashdot just posted a blurb and some links regarding the Cybercrime Treaty. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/23/237208&mode=thread http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=ZZZD3WRL5LC&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsummary=0 Potential points of interest for the Law Enforcement and Business community (summerized from the law.com link above): Manditory investigatory cooperation for crimes in any nation (ie, not limited to what's illegal in the US, or even the specific catagories required by the Treaty). Also from the law.com article: "One moment, an Internet provider might be turning over all Bulgarian folk songs on its system to an investigator. The next moment, it might be searching for e-mail traffic between customers in Latvia and the Ukraine." (The ISP gets stuck with the time/equipment expenses required to comply) "All companies will have to pay closer attention to their employees' computer habits. The treaty imposes criminal liability on businesses if they fail to supervise users who commit potentially illegal acts. If the treaty is taken to its extreme, "companies will have to survey every single thing that users are doing on their computers," says Halpert, who represents a coalition of Internet portal companies. " End result, exposing Americans to the lowest privacy standard of any treaty member country.
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