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American Civil Liberties Union : Seven Reasons the US Should Reject the International Cybercrime Treaty
Topic: Politics and Law 9:41 am EDT, Apr 27, 2004

] The Cybercrime Convention does three major things:
]
] It includes a list of crimes that each member country
] must have on its books. The treaty requires
] criminalization of offenses such as hacking, the
] production, sale or distribution of hacking tools, and an
] expansion of criminal liability for intellectual property
] violations (Articles 2-11).
]
] It requires each participating nation to grant new powers
] of search and seizure to its law enforcement authorities.
] They include the power to force an Internet Service
] Provider (ISP) to preserve a citizen%u2019s internet
] usage records or other data, and the power to monitor a
] citizen%u2019s online activities in real time (Articles
] 16-22).
]
] It requires law enforcement in every participating
] country to assist police from other participating
] countries. US police would be required to cooperate
] %u201Cmutual assistance requests%u201D from police in
] other participating nations %u201Cto the widest extent
] possible%u201D (Articles 23-35).

American Civil Liberties Union : Seven Reasons the US Should Reject the International Cybercrime Treaty



 
 
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