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 activities” on the internet. The proposals are contained in the draft Convention against Cybercrime of […]
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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 proposals on “electronic evidence” (“e-evidence”) could be concluded this year. This is according to a […]
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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 Presidency wants to get things moving on the so-called E-Evidence dossier and has scheduled several […]
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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 be regulated in additional agreements. Just in time for the 20th anniversary of the Convention […]