CAN PASSING LAWS BE THE ANSWER?
What will cybertheft be like in the year 2010? Tom Clancy, novelist, presents a world where computers are the super powers, spawning sinister cyberthieves who are the targets of FBI agents charged with enforcing “Net Laws” that Congress has created. Clancy’s new novel, Net Force (http://www.photosourcefolio.com/bookstore.htm#0425161722), is fiction, but reminds us of the monumental impact hackers and thieves could have if we do not update our fraud statutes to protect consumers. Arizona’s Attorney General, Janet Napolitano, has proposed a comprehensive answer in her Computer Crime Act of 2000. It will attack business-related cybercrime on several fronts. All this has to work within a sensitive framework. Most laws, in a free enterprise society, attempt to protect individual rights. Without a balance between information protection and information dissemination– we can do a disservice to our own personal rights. We will keep you posted. RE Rohn Engh is director of PhotoSource Internatio
