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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Categories
- Anonymity
- Anonymous and Co
- censorship
- Cloud_computing
- Corporate Responsibility
- Council of Europe
- Countries – China
- Countries – France
- Countries – UK
- Countries – US
- Cyberwar
- Data retention
- Discipline
- Drones
- Education
- Encryption
- EU policy
- Filtering
- Freedom of speech
- Gaming
- General – Cost(s) of cybercrime
- General – Criminalisation
- General – Cybercrime patterns
- General – Legal/non legal responses to cybercrime
- Human Rights
- Information – reliability
- Investigation-1- Police forces (training)
- Investigation-2- Interception of communication
- Investigation-3- Miscelleanous
- 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)
- Offences – Violence against the person
- 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
Category Archives: Human Rights
Copyright, piracy and proportionality
Does The Punishment Fit The Crime? Is Manslaughter An Equivalent Crime To Copyright Infringement? | Techdirt. 31 August 2011 A post that highlights, by refering to another article (in French, translation OK), part of the absurdity of criminalising copyright infringement. … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, Offences - Piracy
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Don’t preach what you don’t do
China Gleefully Uses UK Desire For Censorship To Validate Its Own Censorship | Techdirt. 12 August 2011 About the riots in England, but the same can be said about Europe having sold surveillance technologies over the years to most Middle … Continue reading
Corporate responsibility: internet regulation
Self-Regulation: Should Online Companies Police The Internet? | Techdirt. 6 December 2011
Regulating VW or games? The Red Cross’ point of view
Red Cross Wants Real Life Laws Enforced Within Virtual Worlds | Techdirt. 5 December 2011 I am a bit puzzled by this one. To want to integrate the rules of armed conflicts into games that clearly violate them would defeat … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming, Human Rights, Virtual Worlds
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Anonymous
Anonymous 101: Introduction to the Lulz | Threat Level | Wired.com. November 8, 2011 an excellent piece, refered to by Masnick on Techdirt, “understanding Anonymous: the culture of Lulz” 9 November 2011 (thanks). For me who is not a tech … Continue reading
Posted in Anonymous and Co, Education, Human Rights
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Filtering issues
How Even Highly-Targeted Censorship Can Lead To Overblocking | Techdirt. 23 December 2011 “Former DHS Assistant Secretary Stewart Baker On SOPA 2.0: Still A Disaster For Cybersecurity“, TechDirt, 15 December 2011, where the person explains that a device created to … Continue reading
Collusion: corporations and autocratic regimes
Syria Crackdown Gets Italy Firm’s Aid With U.S.-Europe Spy Gear – Bloomberg. 3 November 2011 Still going through my pile of newsletters.This one is just one out of many underlying the collusion between money and politics. It should be read … Continue reading
Surveillance technologies and autocratic governments
“EU Says Syria Spyware Ban Covers E-Mail Probes, Remote Infection”, 19 January 2012, Business & Human Rights : Links. The EU banned the exports of security/surveillance technologies to Syria because of the misuses its Government commited and commits. The move … Continue reading
Bradley Manning Formally Charged
Bradley Manning Formally Charged; Defers Plea | Techdirt. 23 February 2012 nothing to add: why so long after arrest and imprisonment? where are the basic human rights we ask others to comply with? how foolish are we to renegate what … Continue reading
Drones: from the military to the civil society
Drone Attack: How We Might Willingly Embrace The Surveillance Society | Techdirt. 15 March 2012, I have been following the use of drones, with notably the fact that the weapon when killing civilians creates questions of international (criminal) law. But … Continue reading
Posted in Anonymity, Data retention, Education, Human Rights, Surveillance
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