CRIME Cybercrime Treaty

From: David Duncan (dduncan@private)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2001 - 13:39:31 PST

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    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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