opening plenary
Opening remarks
- Speech by Marija Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General, Council of Europe
Criminal justice and the rule of law in cyberspace: challenges
Presentations:
- The 1% problem: How relevant is the criminal justice response?, Alexander Seger, Head of Cybercrime Division, Council of Europe
Resources:
- Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2019, Europol
- Common challenges in combating cybercrime, Eurojust/Europol, June 2019
- Countering the Cyber Enforcement Gap: Strengthening Global Capacity on Cybercrime, Third Way, October 2019
- T-CY (2015)10 Discussion paper: Criminal justice access to data in the cloud: Challenges, Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY), May 2015
Responses to cybercrime: what are the good news?
Presentations:
- Results of capacity building and impact on legislation, Alexander Seger, Head of Cybercrime Division, Council of Europe
- Example of Fiji, Deborah Weiss, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communications, Republic of Fiji
Resources:
- The global state of cybercrime legislation 2013-2019: a cursory overview, Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC), July 2019
- Capacity building on cybercrime: C-PROC activities and results October 2018-September 2019 EN / FR
- Budapest Convention:
WORKSHOPS 1, 2, 3, 5
WS 1 - Online child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse (OCSEA): mapping responses
Presentations:
- Baseline mapping, Victoria Baines, Experts at EndOCSEA@Europe
- End Violence: Global threats and trends, Amy Crocker, End Violence Against Children
- Cooperation at National and International Level, Andreas Hautz, Jugendschutz.net
- Countering online sexual exploitation of children: a Philippines perspective, Atty. Angela Maria M. De Gracia, Department of Justice, Philippines
Resources:
- Member States’ responses to prevent and combat OCSEA: Baseline mapping, 2019
- Mechanisms for collective action to prevent and combat OCSEA: A comparative review, 2019
- Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (Lanzarote Convention)
- Council of Europe Children's Rights Division | EndOCSEA @ Europe project, 2018-2020
- Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on guidelines to respect, protect and fulfil the rights of the child in the digital environment, 2018
- Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2021)
- T-CY (2017)10 Mapping study on cyberviolence, T-CY, July 2018
- Multi-sectorial co-operation to prevent and combat OCSEA, Conference report, July 2019
- Strengthening civil society participation in the implementation and monitoring of the Lanzarote Convention, Conference report and Strategic priorities, July 2019
WS 2 - Data protection and criminal justice: what are the issues?
Presentations:
- Conditions for obtaining subscriber information in relation to dynamic versus static IP addresses, Alexander Seger, Council of Europe
- Mapping criminal infrastructures from "patient zero" using WHOIS, David Piscitello, Interisle Consulting Group
- Data retention: implications of court decisions?, Jan Kerkhofs, Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office
- Data protection and criminal justice: what are the issues? The ICANN perspective, Elena Plexida, ICANN
Resources:
- T-CY (2018)26 Discussion paper: Conditions for obtaining subscriber information – dynamic versus static IP addresses, T-CY, October 2018
- T-PD(2019)3 Inclusion of data protection safeguards relating to law enforcement trans-border access to data in the 2nd Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention, May 2019
- Provisional Answers from the Committee of Convention 108 to the Discussion paper for the Octopus Conference, July 2018
- ECHR Chamber judgements:
- Benedik v. Slovenia, 2018
- Big Brother Watch and others v. UK, 2018
- Centrum för Rättvisa v. Sweden, 2018
- K.U. v. Finland, 2008
- Data Protection/Privacy Issues, ICANN resources
- ICANN GDPR and WHOIS Users Survey, Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), October 2018
- 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (executive summary), Verizon
WS 3 - Cooperation on cybercrime and cybersecurity: from incidents response to criminal justice
Presentations:
- Cooperation and handling incidents, Sabin Popescu, CERT-RO
- Case study: major attack on critical infrastructure, Olexandr Bakalynskyi, CERT-UA
- Cyber Security in Georgia: current trends and future plans, David Kvatadze, Georgia
- Capacity building example: CyberEast project, Giorgi Jokhadze, C-PROC
- Workshop 3: online poll results
Resources:
- Cybercrime and cybersecurity strategies in the Eastern Partnership (EAP) region, updated report, January 2019
- ENISA reports:
- Cooperation between CSIRTs and Law Enforcement (LE), January 2019
- Improving Cooperation between CSIRTs and LE, December 2017
- Tools and Methodologies to Support CSIRTs-LE Cooperation, December 2017
- Information sharing and common taxonomies between CSIRTs and LE, January 2016
- Action Document for EU4Digital: Improving Cyber Resilience in the EAP Countries
WS 5 - Cybercrime, “fake news” and election interference
Presentations:
- Why is election interference not prosecuted?, Kannan Gnanasihamani, Attorney-General's Chambers, Singapore
Resources:
- Report on digital technologies and elections, European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission), June 2019
- Conclusions of the 15th European Conference of electoral management bodies on “Security in elections”, April 2018
- T-CY(2019)4 Guidance Note on election interference, T-CY, July 2019
- Understanding Information Disorder
- Information Disorder : Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making
- Responsible Reporting in an Age of Information Disorder
- Analysis: Estonia Case Study of Scalable Ecosystem Fostering Secure I-voting
- European Union Members Share Advice on Cyber Security of Elections
- Cyberspace - Just Another Domain of Election Interference?
Workshop 4 - consultations
WS 4 - Evidence in cyberspace: multi-stakeholder consultation on the Protocol to the Budapest Convention
Presentation:
Resources:
- Protocol negotiations web-page
- Consultations web-page
- Discussion guide for consultations [EN / FR]
- Provisional draft text of provisions [EN / FR / ES] revised on 8 November 2019
Written comments:
- EuroISPA - European association of European Internet Services Providers Associations
- ISPA - Internet Service Providers Austria
- Nyman Gibson Miralis Law Firm
- Civil Society Submission (EFF, EDRi, IT-Pol and EPIC)
- CCBE - Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe
- CDT - Center for Democracy & Technology
- Asociación por los Derechos Civiles
- European Data Protection Board (EDPB)
- Consultative Committee of the Data Protection Convention (T-PD)
Closing Plenary
Results of workshops:
Octopus take-aways
NEW Lightning sessions
- Théodore Christakis & Peter Swire | Sidi Mohamed Beldjilali
- Pakorn Kunsara | Kinga Sorban
- Niwate Arpawasin | Bertrand De La Chapelle
- Allison Peters | James Vigil | Kemali Veli Acar
- Sidi Mohamed Raliou | Tomi Nylund
Current future challenges
- Human rights and artificial intelligence, Patrick Penninckx, Council of Europe
- Council of Europe and AI
- European Ethical Charter on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in judicial systems and their environment, CEPEJ, December 2018
