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And from the archives: Privacy groups try to rally opposition to "cybercrime" treaty http://www.politechbot.com/p-02126.html Planned global Net-treaty hands police more power, limits privacy http://www.politechbot.com/p-01136.html U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposes "cybercrime" treaty http://www.politechbot.com/p-01558.html Council of Europe treaty may not include privacy protections http://www.politechbot.com/p-01553.html Civil lib groups oppose CoE treaty http://www.politechbot.com/p-01431.html -Declan ********* http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5093153,00.html Multi-nation cybercrime pact gets OK June 22, 2001 1:25 PM PT A committee on crimes for the Council of Europe signed off Friday on the final draft of a broad treaty that aims to help countries fight cybercrime, but which critics say sacrifices privacy protections. When ratified by the council's leadership and signed by individual countries, the Convention on Cyber-Crime will bind countries to creating a minimum set of laws to deal with high-tech crimes, including unauthorized access to a network, data interference, computer-related fraud and forgery, child pornography, and digital copyright infringement. [...] ********** http://partners.nytimes.com/thestandard/standard_27391.html Council of Europe Signs Draft Cybercrime Treaty June 22, 2001 BRUSSELS - The blueprint for a global code on cybercrime was agreed on in Strasbourg, France, Friday, paving the way for international rules governing online copyright infringement, online fraud, child pornography and hacking. The 41 members of the Council of Europe (CoE), plus the U.S., Canada and Japan, signed on to a draft convention on cybercrime that is set to be rubber-stamped at ministerial level in September. [...] ********** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------