Tag: Budapest Convention
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Cleaning up the internet: UN plans convention against cybercrime
A new convention for the prosecution of online crimes is to include the “spreading of false information” if this could trigger “social unrest”. States are therefore to make provisions to be able to uniformly prosecute calls for “subversive or armed…
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Council and Parliament negotiations: EU laws on “E-Evidence” reportedly on the home straight
Internet service providers are to facilitate the work of law enforcement agencies with orders to preserve and hand over their users’ data. With an additional directive, companies must designate legal representation and establish points of contact. Negotiations on the EU…
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What’s the problem with the EU regulation on the release of electronic evidence?
The EU Parliament has accommodated the member states on crucial points, but now demands special attention to fundamental rights. The controversial question is how a state in which a company is based can object to an order. The French EU…
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Budapest Convention: Council of Europe decides to facilitate the exchange of electronic evidence
In future, investigating authorities and public prosecutors’ offices will be able to force internet providers in a third country to hand over data on their users without a court order there. Even more far-reaching surveillance measures on “e-evidence” are to…
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“Electronic Evidence”: No simplification for digital investigations yet
No less than three international organisations are working on different agreements to ease access to servers abroad for police and judiciary. In the Council of Europe, the EU Commission might pre-empt the United Nations. Problems arise with demands from the…
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US authorities want to legally intercept telecommunications in Europe
The FBI could soon demand sensitive communication data from European Internet service providers. It would also be possible to have the data retrieved in real time. With this, the European Union wants to make the Trump administration weigh the possibility…