Justice to Announce Cyber-Crime Crackdown
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The Justice Department is set to announce a major crackdown on cyber-crime that will include arrests, subpoenas and property seizures of alleged e-mail spammers and online scam artists, according to law enforcement and industry sources. -The Washington Post
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Sex offenders could be forced to register their e-mail addresses and chatroom names, the government says.
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Websites deemed illegal, as well as computer markets and internet cafes, are being targeted by Chinese authorities involved in a bigger crackdown on juvenile crime.
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Metropolitan Police in London suggests creating national cybercrime unit to help local police departments coordinate efforts.
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Details of missing high risk sex offenders could be published on the internet to alert parents.
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Italians will soon be able to report crimes directly to the police via the internet, interior minister Giuseppe Pisanu said on Sunday.
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The Scottish government will outline its new plans to deal with sex offenders.
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Interpol proposed on Wednesday the creation of global and regional anti-crime centers to fight criminal activity online and respond quickly to emergency cybercrime alerts.
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WASHINGTON The Justice Department has announced that more than 150 people have been arrested, charged or convicted in the past three months in a crackdown on criminal activity on the Internet.
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Labour to launch "zero tolerance" criminal justice drive and review of self-defence laws.
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Analysis: Is a government move to cut off broadband for illegal downloaders enforcable?
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 12  /PRNewswire/ -- The National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) today announces a new "Take a Bite Out of Cyber Crime" public awareness campaign ( http://www.bytecrime.org/ ) funded by a coalition of private sector partners.
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The inspector general for the Justice Department is also concerned that taking money from other FBI programs could hinder efforts in counterterrorism and cybercrime.
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John Reid says new measures to protect children online - including a parental alarm - are to be unveiled.
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The law protecting people who intervene to stop crime is to be reviewed, the justice secretary will announce.
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New York&#39;s attorney general and state legislative leaders presented a bill on Tuesday aimed at protecting people from sexual predators on the Internet, aand Facebook, MySpace, and Yahoo backed the effort.In a press conference, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced legislation they called &quot;groundbreaking&quot; in its proposed restrictions and controls of sexual offenders&#39; online activities.&quot;Today I believe we&#39;re proposing the most comprehensive, smartest, toughest law in the nation to keep people safe online, especially minors,&quot; Cuomo said.The Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act (e-STOP) responds to the widely documented use that sexual offenders make of the Internet, in particular social-networking sites, to stalk and victimize people, particularly minors.Specifically, e-STOP would require convicted sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses, instant message screen names, and any other online identifiers with the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. That data would then be made available to social-networking companies and other online services so that they can then block access to sexual offenders and remove them from their sites.The bill also calls for allowing sentencing courts and the state&#39;s Parole Board to restrict the online activities of sex offenders who used the Internet to commit their crimes, victimized a minor, or are considered highly likely to repeat their offenses. In particular, the bill would ban many sex offenders from using social-networking sites.There are more than 627,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S., about 25,000 of whom are in New York, according to Cuomo&#39;s office.State attorneys general have been very vocal about their concerns over online safety, in particular of minors who are preyed upon by sexual offenders on social-networking sites, which are widely used by teens.The attorneys general have often criticized Facebook, MySpace, and other sites for, in their view, not doing enough to protect minors, but the two sides have recently seemed to get on better terms and have rolled out several joint security initiatives, partnerships and agreements.The e-STOP bill is needed to help social-networking companies keep their sites safer and will complement these companies&#39; in-house security efforts, Cuomo said.MySpace Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam agreed and said laws need to keep up with the times and technology. &quot;We hope [e-STOP] becomes a model for other states to follow,&quot; Nigam said.&quot;As Facebook and other Internet companies do our best to exclude [from our sites] those who would do our users harm, we need help from the government,&quot; said Chris Kelly, Facebook&#39;s chief privacy officer.Ideally, legislation like e-STOP would get enacted widely in U.S. states and also at the federal level, Cuomo said.
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U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the government is committed to fighting piracy and cybercrime, during a speech in Seattle.