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The digital revolution has blown through the world's economies, ruffling
stock markets, sending some shares soaring and others tumbling - but
also coming as a godsend to criminals, who exploit the new networks
to rake in huge profits. New types of crime have appeared, threatening
individuals, firms and even states. The international convention on
cyber-crime, which the Council of Europe is currently finalising,
is a world first.
In it, the Council's member states and their partners (United States, Canada, Japan, South Africa) are setting out to bring legal and ethical standards into an area where - for good or ill, and in liberty's name - only the laws of the market have applied so far. The Convention, adopted by the Foreign Ministers on 8 November 2001, was opened for signature by the States on 23 November 2001 in Budapest.
Lithuania ratified the Convention on Cybercrime on 18 March 2004. Following this fifth ratification, the Convention will enter into force on 1st July 2004 for Albania, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary and Lithuania.
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''Fighting a new scourges: cybercrime and human trafficking''
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An Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime requiring States to criminalise the dissemination of racist and xenophobic material through computer systems was adopted on 7 November 2002 by the Committee of Ministers.
Its two major objectives are to harmonize criminal law in the fight against racism and xenophobia on the Internet, and to improve international co-operation in this area.This Additional Protocol was opened to signature during the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly on January 2003.
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