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                Date: 2000-11-21
                 
                 
                "Cyber-Crime" - Abkommen: Neuentwurf heute
                
                 
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      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. 
... 
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. 
... 
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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edited by Harkank 
published on: 2000-11-21 
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