PPT Slide
German Foreign Minister: "Data espionage and data theft, credit card fraud, child pornography, far-right extremism and terrorists are ever more common on the Internet. Our vision is not a transparent person watched by a global Big Brother, or the transformation of the net into a global police regime. In an information society, what is the right balance between fundamental freedoms and security?"
German Interior Minister: "The worldwide data networks jump over all borders, and so Internet criminals do not stop at our national boundaries. Of the criminal activity registered by Germany's crime agency in 1999, 80 percent had traces leading to the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia and Russia.”
DoJ: "When one country's laws criminalize certain activities on computers and another country's laws do not, cooperation in solving a crime and prosecuting the perpetrator may not be possible. Take the recent investigation of the Love bug virus, for example. Although our investigators continue to work closely with investigators in the Philippines, international coordination would have proceeded more quickly and effectively had there existed common computer crime laws between our countries."
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