CoE Cybercrime Treaty & Privacy

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Dark side of cybercrime fight (Financial Times)
An international treaty on law enforcement for the web poses
unsettling questions about civil liberties
Now even that most perfectible of criminal technologies, the free and
lawless internet, is about to be nabbed. Perhaps as early as
Thursday, European negotiators will finish the final draft of a
treaty on law enforcement in cyberspace under the auspices of the
Council of Europe, a 43-nation intergovernmental body. Several other
non-European governments, including the US, have worked on the treaty
with the aim of eventually signing it.

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3MPAYCJMC
The privacy dilemma in the Internet age (USA Today)
BOSTON (Reuters) - When Louis Brandeis wrote the Supreme Court
dissent almost 70 years ago that inspired modern privacy laws, he
already had an inkling that legislation would have trouble keeping up
with technology. "The progress of science in furnishing the
government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with
wiretapping," Brandeis wrote, dissenting from a decision that upheld
the police's right to wiretap without a warrant. In the Internet age,
as more and more personal information becomes publicly available and
technology allows it to be stored and analyzed more easily, the laws
that derive from Brandeis are becoming more and more inadequate.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-05-09-privacy-analysis.htm


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