Release of Advocacy Handbook on Cyber-Crime Convention
Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties released today an Advocacy
Handbook for the Non Governmental Organisations: The Council of Europe's Cyber-Crime
Convention 2001 and the additional protocol on the criminalisation of acts
of a racist or xenophobic nature committed through computer systems. The handbook
provides a policy analysis of the Convention from a human rights perspective
focusing on implications for freedom of expression, privacy of communications
and data protection as well as compatibility problems with the European Convention
on Human Rights. Although the Cyber-Crime Convention states in the preamble
that a proper balance needs to be ensured between the interests of law enforcement
and respect for fundamental human rights, the author finds that the balance
resolutely and regrettably favours the former.
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December 2003
