EU PLANS TO BITE THE BULLET ON CYBERCRIME
September 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT may come as a surprise that given the acres of newsprint and terabytes of data devoted to cybercrime over the past decade that the European Union (EU) still lacks a dedicated and centralised centre for fighting Internet crime.
Sure, the EU has not been idle. It has in a rather piecemeal fashion approved some useful initiatives and set up some helpful organisations. But, in contrast to the cyberworld these institutions and units aim to tame, they are not comprehensively networked in a carefully structured system. This, however, may be about to ...
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