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Cybercrime Treaty — Hidden Costs For All

linuxtelephony writes in with an article at CIO Insight about a cybercrime treaty drafted in Europe with help from the US. It has implications for just about everyone with a network. From the article: "Civil libertarians are especially concerned about the sweeping authority given to participating countries to seize information from private parties as they investigate cybercrimes, even when the activity being investigated isn't a crime in the country where the data is located... Telecommunications companies object to provisions that require member countries to establish and enforce potent data-retention policies for network traffic, and require any operator of a computer network to respond to requests for information from any participating country without compensation of any kind... The provisions for data retention and production apply to any operator of a computer network, not just telecoms... Worldwide law-enforcement agencies, in other words, may now avail themselves of the opportunity to outsource their most expensive problems to you."

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  1. Problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I get sperm in my keyboard all the time. I can't seeem to lick it out. Any suggestiosn ?

  2. Another law for cooperations by pembo13 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Another law that only barely benefits regular people

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    "Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
  3. Re:data-retention policies for network traffic ??? by josemayor1 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Telecommunications companies object to provisions that require member countries to establish and enforce potent data-retention policies for network traffic. Is very good this notice. http://www.dovoyeur.com/

  4. Re:Unfair by josemayor1 · · Score: -1, Troll

    This type of laws is necessary, to eviar the insecurity producidad in this world. I believe that she provides but security to us and but control in all its aspects. http://www.dovoyeur.com/