What measures are other countries taking to combat cybercrime?
In 2001, the Council of Europe drafted the Convention on Cyber-crime to address some of the legal issues raised by new technologies, including hacking, child pornography, copyright offences and difficulties investigating and prosecuting cybercrime across borders. The Convention calls on signatory states to adopt Production Orders and Preservation Orders, among other lawful access measures. To date, thirty-one nations, including Canada, have signed the Convention. However, only eleven have put the treaty into force, none of them major, industrialized nations. It is not clear if the United States, one of only four non-European countries to sign the treaty, will even ratify it, since aspects of the Convention may contravene the U.S. Constitution. The European Union recently proposed harmonized data retention rules requiring telecommunication service providers to collect and store telephone traffic data for up to one year and Internet traffic data for up to six months. The data could be ac
