[CLUE-Talk] Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention

[Jed S. Baer]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0121-01.htm

A few excerpted paragraphs:

After delaying for about two years, U.S. President George W. Bush recently
asked the U.S. Senate to ratify the Council of Europe Cybercrime
Convention, a global agreement apparently created to help police worldwide
cooperate to fight Internet crimes.

The agreement also makes it mandatory for each participating nation to
grant new powers of search and seizure to its law enforcement authorities,
including the power to force an Internet service provider (ISP) to
preserve a customer's usage records and to monitor his or her online
activities as they occur.

If approved by the Senate, experts say, U.S. police would be required to
cooperate in ?mutual assistance requests? from police in other nations ?to
the widest extent possible?

There's more.

jed
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