I'm a new member of your blog and a few others. I've just started a PhD in IT law (specially on legal issues surrounding digital identity) at Southampton. Thanks for letting me join!
Another one on cybercrime: today, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs will present the European Cybercrime Centre to the media on 9 January 2013 after which the Centre will be officially inaugurated on 11 January 2013. In 2010, the European Council had tasked the Commission with verifying the feasibility of establishing a European Cybercrime Centre that would become Europe's focal point in the fight against cybercrime.
The establishment of the EC3 is a result of the Commission Communication, Tackling Crime in our Digital Age: Establishing a European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), which was adopted on 28 March 2012. This Communication stated that the fight against cybercrime, for which the main legal instrument is the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention, continues to be a top priority for the EU.
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The Centre will develop a common standard for cybercrime reporting so that serious cybercrime can be reported to national law enforcement authorities in a uniform way; respond to queries from and train cybercrime investigators, prosecutors and judges as well as the private sector on specific technical and forensic issues; and:
"assume the collective voice of European cybercrime investigators, providing a platform to develop common positions of Union law enforcement authorities on key issues, for example on Internet governance structures or in building trusted networks with the private sector and non-governmental organisations, and providing the natural interface for international initiatives to curb cybercrime, such as Interpol's work in this domain".
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Evening, Alison — great to see you on here!
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see how well the centre for cybercrime performs. The convention on cybercrime is perhaps not the biggest success of centralised policy, but perhaps this will be different. The seems to be quite a lot of work already going on in terms of mutual cooperation and collaboration in the field of cybercrime, particularly in terms of major cybercrime and espionage risk from foreign nations, so this may build on that, or else struggle to find a role?
Yes, indeed. I sat in remotely on a couple of sessions at the Internet Governance Forum in Baku late last year touching on cybercrime, which was an interesting 'join the dots' discussion about different national efforts. Although not one I joined, the workshop report from this sub-committee neatly sums up where future hopes and main challenge areas of international collaboration appear to rest:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/content/article/116-workshop-proposals/1020-igf-2012-workshop-proposal--no-84-how-can-cooperation-and-multi-stakeholder-collaboration-impact-the-global-fight-against-cybercrime-and-improve-cyber-security.
(If you can't find report on this page, google it - I don't have full uri for pdf).
Of note from that report, "A strategy for dealing with Cybercrime is only as strong as the weakest link". Very true, as repeated by someone from the Serious Fraud Office who came to Southampton recently!