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Council of Europe Cybercrime Conference calls for global response to global threat. World-wide action against cybercrime was the aim of a Council of Europe conference, to be held in Strasbourg from 15 to 17 September 2004.
Politicians and experts from government, the private sector and the police joined forces to discuss the issues from every angle: including cyber terrorism, fraud, child pornography sites, data protection and copyright.
The conference aims to promote the Council of Europe’s Cybercrime Convention – the first international text to tackle this new form of crime. The organisers hope to encourage European and non-European states to sign and ratify the text. At present eight countries have ratified and 30 have signed: the convention came into force in July 2004.
Surveys prepared for the conference show that cybercrime is the fastest growing type of crime world-wide, with criminals adapting their methods to modern society, and creating networks that are harder for the police to crack.
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''We need to give more publicity to the dangers of cybercrime,” stressed Secretary General Terry Davis at the opening of the high-level round table that closes the conference on cybercrime. (more...)
 Summary of the Round table |
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Security companies call for ratification of Cybercrime Convention
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Henrik Kaspersen : ''The Cybercrime Convention is exerting a great influence..."
Interview
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Isabelle de Schrijver : "Young people need to be taught about the dangers of the Internet..."
Interview
Contribution |
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Prof. Ulrich Sieber: "... Cybercrime, it involves global threats, which demand global responses"
Synthesis
Interview |
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