Security News > 2000 > October > FC: Civil lib groups oppose CoE treaty, OECD "cybercrime" forum

Forwarded By: Anonymous ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Declan McCullagh X-Sender: declan () mail well com To: politech () politechbot com Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:00:21 -0400 Subject: FC: Civil lib groups oppose CoE treaty, OECD "cybercrime" forum "Global Web Crime Agency Mooted" Financial Times (10/18/00) P. 7; Grande, Carlos Cybercrime and online privacy will top the agenda at the World E-Commerce Forum, to be held in London today by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Representatives from world governments and the Internet industry, including British Telecom and RSA Security, will attend the meeting. The OECD is urging world governments to fight cybercrime through greater regulation of the Internet. Risaburo Nezo, head of the OECD's Science, Technology, and Industry directorate, says the number of security attacks in the U.S. and Japan are on the rise. "The global nature of the Internet means that there will have to be harmonized security standards," says Nezo. International Data predicts that expenditures on information security services across the globe will jump from $4.8 billion in 1998 to $16.5 billion in 2004. See text of groups' letter (discussed below): http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/17/1622228&mode=nested http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39519,00.html Police Treaty a Global Invasion? by Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com) 3:00 p.m. Oct. 17, 2000 PDT WASHINGTON -- Civil liberties groups are vexed over a proposed treaty that would grant more surveillance powers to U.S. and European police agencies, and expand copyright crimes. Thirty groups -- from North America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe -- said this week that the treaty "improperly extends the police authority of national governments" and places the privacy of Internet users and the freedom of computer programmers at risk. In a long letter to Walter Schwimmer, the Council of Europe's secretary general, the groups advise the participating governments to delay action on the treaty and consult with technical and privacy experts instead. "It's a direct assault on legal protections and constitutional protections that have been established by national governments to protect their citizens," says Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "It's both an end run by police agencies and a bit of policy laundering by the U.S. Department of Justice to get more (surveillance) authority." Rotenberg said EPIC and other groups wanted to rally opposition to the measure before a summit of participating nations next week in Berlin. The U.S. has helped craft the Council of Europe's proposal, which is expected to be finalized within the next few months, making it the first computer crime treaty. The draft treaty is designed to aid police in investigations of online miscreants in cases where attacks or intrusions cross national borders. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".

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