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US joins European cybercrime convention
News The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime calls on countries to co-ordinate international law to fight cybercrime. The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime is a global approach to the global problem of computer crime.
[October 2, 2006, 13:30]
US joins European cybercrime convention
Talkback Sure we all want to be protected from cybercrime, but the State Department and other U.S. It's novel that Mr. McCormack of the US State Department is offering up assistance to places like France when we in the US can’t get our e-passport issues...
[October 2, 2006, 20:16]
Council of Europe approves cybercrime treaty
News The Council of Europe Ministers' Deputies has approved the first international convention on cybercrime, which will set a common criminal policy on the misuse of computer networks and electronic information for terrorist or illegal activity.
[September 21, 2001, 14:09]
Information commissioner slams European data initiative
News The information commissioner is warning the Council of Europe to take a "proportionate" approach towards the interception and retention of all electronic communications contained within the Cybercrime Convention.
[July 13, 2001, 16:44]
Council of Europe ratifies cybercrime treaty
News The Convention on Cybercrime will come into effect on 1 July next year. In addition, in 2002, the Council of Europe ratified several measures designed to prevent racism and xenophobia on the internet, which have been integrated into an additional...
[March 22, 2004, 15:00]
Cybercrime summit urges international cooperation
News At a conference in Strasbourg, delegates from governments, police forces and businesses around the world are meeting to discuss the ratification of the Council of Europe's Cybercrime Convention. The UK has signed the convention, but has not yet...
[September 17, 2004, 15:50]
Ban looms for online racist material
News The Council of Europe published the draft protocol as a supplement to the Cybercrime Convention. The investigative powers as defined in the Cybercrime Convention and in the instruments for mutual assistance are made applicable to racist and...
[February 21, 2002, 10:16]
Cybercrime treaty may conflict with UN declaration
News So far, we have not witnessed openness, and transparency in the drafting of the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention, and in relation to G8 initiatives to fight cybercrimes," he says. Akdeniz will issue the warning at a United Nations Symposium...
[December 12, 2000, 13:30]
Interpol: Give us the tools to fight cybercrime
News A global framework for legislation should be provided by the Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime, according to Otupal. The Convention, ratified in 2001, is a European treaty designed to allow a common criminal policy on cybercrime.
[March 21, 2006, 12:35]
Council of Europe presses for 'hate speech' Internet ban
News A supplement is to be added to the newly approved Cybercrime Convention that will seek to ban all racist Web sites from the Internet. After the convention -- the world's first international treaty on cybercrime -- was approved on Thursday, the...
[November 12, 2001, 13:09]
EC launches European cybercrime forum
News European commissioner Antonio Vittorino announced the launch of a European cybercrime forum on Tuesday, following a recommendation contained in the EC draft convention on cybercrime. In his keynote speech at EuroISPA's conference on Internet...
[April 11, 2001, 9:03]
MP to propose tougher cybercrime laws
News Such a hike in sentences would make the offence an extraditable one and bring it into line with the European Convention on Cybercrime. The UK All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) is calling on the government to raise the penalties for...
[March 14, 2005, 7:40]
CBI calls for cybercrime laws to be updated
News Also, its penalties are too lenient to allow UK citizens to be extradited abroad in line with the UK's obligations under the Cybercrime Convention, or for foreign suspects to be brought here for trial.
[November 22, 2005, 13:00]
Interpol orders immediate cybercrime action
News The Council of Europe is expected to produce a second public draft of its cybercrime convention in the next few weeks and the convention may evolve into a globally recognised pact for fighting computer crime.
[October 11, 2000, 15:02]
Outrage over privacy violation in cybercrime treaty
News To our dismay and alarm, the convention continues to be a document that threatens the rights of the individual while extending the powers of police authorities, creates a low-barrier protection of rights uniformly across borders and ignores highly...
[December 14, 2000, 8:45]
News Roundup: UK cracks down on Internet crime
News Wed, 11 April EC cybercrime forum will include public interest groups, following a recommendation contained in the EC draft convention on cybercrime Home Office says 'no' to cybercrime figures Fri, 20 April The Home Office will not be recording...
[April 23, 2001, 14:33]
Law may be updated to cover DoS attacks
News The Home Office is also currently working with the Crown Prosecution Service, the police and industry representatives, to decide how to implement the Council Of Europe Cybercrime Convention. It is likely that any changes to the CMA will be included...
[December 11, 2002, 16:52]
New global treaty could pose threat to the Net
News We're not using this treaty as a vehicle to change laws," said one convention delegate who asked not to be named. In the works for nearly a decade, the Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments is still almost unknown outside...
[June 22, 2001, 15:43]
EU pact criminalising security research? Pt II
News The draft convention.will make it much easier for people to investigate. Stuart Hyde, chief superintendent of police in West Yorkshire, England and a British cybercrime expert, told the hackers that European nations need new laws to deal with...
[October 26, 2000, 9:01]
Computer crime treaty threatens human rights
News An international coalition of 28 human rights and civil liberties groups has called on the Council of Europe to alter its draft treaty on International cybercrime, warning that the agreement could violate the European Convention on Human Rights...
[October 19, 2000, 7:41]
