SECUR> Cyber-Crime Laws Hurt More Than They Help

  • From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:08:50 -0500

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  Cyber-Crime Laws Hurt More Than They Help
http://www.eweek.com/

An eWeek editorial on the Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime. 
Cyberlaws such as the federal DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and 
stronger state versions often hamper innovation, resulting in such cases as 
lawsuits for making interoperable products, or security software being pulled 
from the Internet because it may violate a state law. The Convention on 
Cybercrime could extend such laws outside the United States to the world as a 
whole. Requirements for international cooperation could lead a country to 
investigate a citizen on behalf of another country for actions that are not 
crimes in the citizen's country. Such action could be used against political 
dissidents. Material acceptable in one country, such as a swimsuit catalog, may 
violate decency laws in another. Nations could conduct industrial espionage by 
requesting Internet records from a service provider under the guise of an 
investigation.

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