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Email Scammer Sent Down In $242m Fraud Case
Talkback The law regulates the social interests through the instrumentality of criminal law. Fortification of society and stamping out criminal inclination must be the object of the law, which must be achieved by imposing suitable sentence.
[July 18, 2005, 19:31]
WITSA Statement On The Council Of Europe Draft Convention On Cyber-Crime
White Papers The majority of what are termed “cyber-crimes” is really violations of long-standing criminal law, perpetrated through the use of computers or information networks. The problems of crime using computers will rarely require the creation of new...
[February 5, 2004, 23:00]
Blogging Sites Harbouring Cybercriminals
Talkback The real threat of criminal law Thus, the threat of criminal law is real and apparent and it must be kept in mind by the blog providers. It must be appreciated that both "acts" and "omissions" are punishable under the criminal laws.
[July 26, 2005, 18:06]
UK Expert Calls For Entrapment Of Paedophiles
News A senior partner at the UK's largest criminal law firm says British law needs revising if Internet paedophiles like Patrick Green are to be caught before they have the chance to assault children. Criminal experts are in agreement that US entrapment...
[October 25, 2000, 11:07]
Steps To Secure A Law Enforcement Network
White Papers This network provides on-line access to records concerning wanted persons, stolen vehicles, criminal histories, and other data of importance to law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. The author works for a statewide law enforcement network.
[August 30, 2005, 0:00]
EU Lawmakers Threaten Open Source
News The European Commission has proposed a law that could allow criminal charges to be pressed against businesses using software that is believed to infringe upon another company's intellectual property (IP).
[August 1, 2005, 17:45]
Home Office To Criminalise Chatroom Meetings
News There was concern that the civil order on its own wouldn't address the serious situation of where a paedophile had arranged a meeting with a child for sexual purposes," explained Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow, who sits on the criminal law...
[July 20, 2001, 17:18]
Government Limits Consultation On Child Protection Law
News The "grooming" proposal was developed in August by the Scrutiny of the Criminal Law subgroup of the Home Office Internet Taskforce on Child Protection. The government has issued a letter to all cabinet members and members of the legal profession...
[September 7, 2001, 8:30]
DMCA Case Verdict: Not Guilty
News The case against ElcomSoft is considered a crucial test of the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a controversial law designed to extend copyright protections into the digital age.
[December 18, 2002, 8:08]
'DMCA On Steroids' Heads For Euro Parliament
News A proposed European Union law strengthening law-enforcement capabilities against intellectual-property violations is set for a crucial vote next week, amid criticism from civil liberties groups that it would allow companies to use draconian...
[February 19, 2004, 20:39]
Government Moves To Tackle Phishing
News Home Office minister Fiona Mactaggart said: "The introduction of a general fraud offence will improve the criminal law in a number of respects. Paul Wood, a chief analyst at security company MessageLabs, said the government needed to focus on...
[May 31, 2005, 14:05]
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002: New Criminal Provisions Affecting Businesses
White Papers Between the new criminal sanctions that have been enacted and the heightened public interest in corporate law enforcement, the stakes have never been higher. This paper highlights some facts you need to know about the new law's criminal provisions.
[December 15, 2004, 23:00]
Encryption Key Legal Challenge?
Blog One criminal law specialist has told technology law podcast OUT-LAW Radio that the law could be challenged under the Human Rights Act, though he also warned that such a challenge could fail under legal tests set out by the European Court of...
[January 25, 2008, 17:08]
Lawyers Sceptical Of "grooming" Laws
News Franklin Sinclair, senior partner at Tuckers Solicitors, is anxious that any law dealing with criminal intent must go beyond a person performing preparatory acts. Government plans to criminalise the "grooming" of children on the Internet could be...
[March 6, 2001, 11:44]
DoJ May Regret Battling Google Over Porn Probe
News If Google convinces California courts that a federal privacy law protects Internet users' search terms from a subpoena, it would become more difficult for law enforcement to seek such records in future criminal investigations, legal experts are...
[February 22, 2006, 12:30]
'Reckless' Data Loss Made A Civil Offence
News In a victory for data-loss law campaigners, MPs backed the amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act to make it an offence for anyone to "intentionally or recklessly disclose information" or "repeatedly and negligently" allow...
[May 13, 2008, 9:34]
Communication Interception Goes Global
News The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has created the LegalXML Lawful Intercept XML (LI-XML) technical committee to develop a global framework to support the "rapid discovery and sharing of suspected...
[January 24, 2003, 9:05]
Russians To Be Tried Under DMCA
News The decision clears the way for a trial in the closely watched case -- believed to be the first criminal prosecution under the contentious law. A US federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss criminal charges against a Russian software...
[May 9, 2002, 14:02]
Home Office May Criminalise Chatroom 'grooming'
News We are aware that the particular act of 'grooming' is not covered by criminal law, and we are looking at a way of tackling this without criminalising harmless activity," said a Home Office spokesman. Based on the Protection from Harassment Act 1997...
[May 9, 2001, 14:25]
Terrorism's Financial Lifeline: Can It Be Severed?
White Papers The increasing reliance by terrorists on laundered and manipulated money means that what may appear to be a law enforcement problem is in fact a national security threat with criminal elements. Using traditional and sophisticated techniques...
[January 19, 2005, 23:00]
