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 "Cyber-Crime" - Abkommen: Neuentwurf heute-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.-
 
 Laut attachiertem Bericht soll die Neuauflage des Cyber-
 Crime Abkommens ab heute auf dem Server des Europarats
 ver/fügbar sein. Wenn, dann steht sie in der Nähe dieses
 Dokuments:
 
 http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/EN/projets/cybercrime22.htm
 
 
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 The 41-nation Council of Europe (COE) is expected to post
 the latest draft of the treaty on its Web site Tuesday, a
 representative for the Strasbourg, France-based council said.
 The council has been hastily redrafting the treaty after
 Internet lobby groups labeled it as a possible human-rights
 threat and as a way for the police authority of national
 governments to be improperly extended.
 
 Legal advisers for the council are issuing a new draft of the
 treaty that clarifies passages that led to the earlier concerns
 and what they see as serious misunderstandings of what the
 treaty actually sets out to do, the representative said.
 ...
 Although the United States is not a member of the COE,
 U.S. representatives have been observing the process and
 advising the members along the way.
 
 Since 1997, the council has been working on a treaty to
 standardize laws against online pornography, hacking, fraud,
 viruses and other Internet criminal activity and has been
 trying to develop common methods of securing evidence to
 track and prosecute criminals.
 
 
 "We have not made any major changes to the substance of
 the treaty," said Peter Csonka, the deputy head of the COE's
 economic crime division, which is overseeing the drafting
 process. "We were surprised about the violence of the
 comments and criticism, so we went back and made the
 next draft more understandable."
 
 Meeting in closed sessions last week were representatives of
 14 members of the COE, as well as observers from the
 United States, Canada, Japan and South Africa.
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 A number of groups criticized articles in the treaty that called
 for countries to pass legislation that would empower
 authorities and ISPs to collect, record or monitor electronic
 communications through the "application of technical means"
 during criminal investigations.
 
 "Specifically, we object to provisions that will require Internet
 service providers to retain records regarding the activities of
 their customers," the Global Internet Liberty Campaign wrote
 in a letter to the COE and posted on its Web site. "These
 provisions pose a significant risk to the privacy and human
 rights of Internet users and are at odds with well-established
 principles of data protection such as the Data Protection
 Directive of the European Union."
 
 Similar communications transaction information has been
 used in the past to identify dissidents and to persecute
 minorities, the Liberty Campaign said.
 
 The controversy surrounding the treaty proposal may delay
 its passage and implementation and could risk its eventual
 approval in other countries, said John Murphy, a law
 professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
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 However, the COE's Csonka said there is plenty of time to
 work out further disagreements and concerns about the
 treaty and said he remains confident that it will help shape
 international law.
 
 His group of legal advisers has one more crack at the draft in
 mid-December before it goes to the Assembly of the Council
 of Europe for approval in January. It is not expected to be
 endorsed by the council before mid-2001, and then it will be
 proposed to individual nations.
 
 Full Text
 http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-3785827.html
 
 
 
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 World-Information Forum
 24 11 2000 Technisches Museum Wien
 http://world-information.org/html/site_index/index.htm
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 published on: 2000-11-21
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