Welcome to Cybercrime Laws!
This blog is part of my cybercrime module taught currently at the University of Essex (UK). I see it as a database with which I, and others, can work.
The updates are not daily, partly because of lack of time, partly because it is easier to group similar subjects in one post after a week or so. RSS feeds (and sharing) are available.
The original blog was on Blogger (blogspot.com), but for maintenance purposes, transfer to Wordpress became necessary. The original blog is still up and running (I just import/export posts)
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- Anonymity
- Anonymous and Co
- censorship
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- Investigation-1- Police forces (training)
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- Investigation-4- Searches and seizures
- Investigation-5- Use of technology(ies)
- Jurisdiction
- Offences – Child pornography
- Offences – CMA s.3A
- Offences – Conspiracy
- Offences – Defamation
- Offences – Forgery
- Offences – Fraud
- Offences – Hacking (unauthorised access)
- Offences – Hacking – Mr. McKinnon (Nasa hacker)'s case
- Offences – Harassment
- Offences – Incitement/provocation
- Offences – Obscenity
- Offences – Piracy
- Offences – Terrorism
- Offences – Theft
- Offences – Unauthorised 'modification' (and co)
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- Prevention – Security
- Privacy
- Providers as law enforcement agents
- Providers' liability
- Scarcity
- Sentencing
- Social networking
- Social networking – Facebook
- Social networking – Twitter
- Spamming
- Surveillance
- Technology – neither good or bad but never neutral
- Trial – Evidence
- Trial – Judges
- Trial – Jury
- Trial – or mediation
- Trial – Right to
- Trial – Training of judges
- Uncategorized
- United Nations
- Virtual Worlds
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Banks Can’t Figure Out How To Spell Gadhafi, So They Can’t Freeze His Assets | Techdirt
Banks Can’t Figure Out How To Spell Gadhafi, So They Can’t Freeze His Assets | Techdirt. April 19th 2011 Dictactorship is no laughing matter, but I thought that one deserves a little smile at least given the context. Transliteration from … Continue reading
Posted in Anonymity, Offences - Fraud
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Feds Tell Supreme Court They Should Be Able To Stick A GPS Device On Your Car Without A Warrant | Techdirt
Feds Tell Supreme Court They Should Be Able To Stick A GPS Device On Your Car Without A Warrant | Techdirt. 20th April 2011 compared with Apple which grants itself the ‘right’ to do so? What is the worse? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13145562: … Continue reading
Nothing new under the sun? printing press=internet
A Fifteenth Century Technopanic About The Horrors Of The Printing Press | Techdirt.
Police Using Skype To Get Warrants While At A Crime Scene | Techdirt
Police Using Skype To Get Warrants While At A Crime Scene | Techdirt. 30 March 2011 an interesting development…
Senators And Reps Grandstand Against Online Pornography Which Is Destroying Our Social Fabric | Techdirt
Senators And Reps Grandstand Against Online Pornography Which Is Destroying Our Social Fabric | Techdirt. 11 April 2011 evidence both ways is rather controversial.
Posted in Offences - Obscenity
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The biggest threat to privacy: Government or Corporations?
Replay Six Months Of A German Politician’s Life Thanks To His Mobile Phone Data | Techdirt. 29 March 2011 Malte Spitz asked for his location and phone data and put it to the Zeit (one of the biggest German newspaper). … Continue reading
Self-reflecting: Wikileaks and the Powerfuls
Over 250 Top US Legal Scholars Condemn The Treatment Of Bradley Manning | Techdirt. 11 April 2011 Even Mainstream Reporters Now Mocking US Bogus ‘Transparency’ On Human Rights Issues Concerning Bradley Manning, TechDirt, 12 April 2011 Is the wind turning, … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, Countries - US
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Evidence, social networking = conviction
Should MySpace Friends & Photos Be Enough Evidence To Convict Someone Of Criminal Gang Activity | Techdirt. 29 December 2010 if the story is true, pretty scary and contrary to basic rules of evidence
Impersonating people and criminal law
FakeCelebrity Twitterers And Bloggers May Face Jail In California | Techdirt. 6 January 2011 Maybe because I come from another cultural and legal tradition, I don’t see the issue of prohibiting impersonation on something ‘permanent’ as on a blog or … Continue reading
Posted in Offences - Harassment, Privacy
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Cyber-attacks: threats to critical infrastructures
Cyber-attacks now the most feared EU energy threat | EurActiv. 25 January 2011 An article transcribing what an official from the EU Commission said. At the heart of the debate on cybersecurity and the potential threats to critical infrastructures. Hardly … Continue reading
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