Monday, August 29, 2011

Australian House of Representatives passed Cybercrime Law

Australian House of Representatives passed Cybercrime Law The Australian House of Representatives has passed the mid-week after a brief debate a bill to strengthen the fight against computer crime. The push for a "Cyber ​​Crime Legislation Amendment Bill 2011" provides, inter alia, that security authorities may require in case of suspicion telecommunications providers to store connection data and content. A provider must retain in this case, the communication in relation to a user or a service used, said the Australian Attorney-General Robert McClelland the project. This would remain on a computer stored information, e-mails, SMS messages and others are available from an access provider data retained. One would be allowed access to it only with judicial approval.
Furthermore, the initiative will facilitate the cooperation between investigators in Australia and their international agencies by simplifying legal assistance treaty. The definition already defined computer crime will expand the parliamentarians. Overall, with the law is the law of the Australian Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime be reconciled. Australia did not belong to the original signatories of the controversial agreement will accede to the attack now but later.
Businesses, civil rights, privacy advocates and opponents have criticized the design focus, the Senate must still pass the Australian. The provider Telstra warned that the new requirements for data retention went over the "business needs" and restrictions imposed on network operators and service providers significant cost. The Australian Privacy Foundation, criticized that the draft will sign only the engaging elements in the fundamental rights of the Cybercrime Convention, but not the strong protections that are in the Member States of the Council, as a rule already in force.
Senator Scott Ludlam criticized the green, that the House of Representatives has not taken up an expert committee recommendations for change to Internet security. The draft goes beyond the provisions of the international convention against computer crime beyond. He fears that with the creeping suspicion independent projects a comprehensive data retention is introduced.
Also in Brazil, meanwhile, a newly cooked draft pushes for a cyber-crime law to resist. A national consumer organization complained that the advance is still a series of everyday computer and Internet use, such as file sharing or transferring content from a CD onto a computer would criminalize. In contrast to contact several campaigns such as Mega Nao ("The Big No") or a petition to "save the Brazilian Internet." The law was 2008 before the Senate adopted the South American country, after violent protests, the then President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had an open ear, but had not been enacted.

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