Inter Agency alliances aim to fight against cybercrime
In the case of new rules of privacy of the Internet for children met last week, the Federal Trade Commission has the power to implementation of the first great law aimed particularly at companies online. But monitoring practices on the Internet is far from new to the Agency.
For nearly five years, the FTC has an active and aggressive role in monitoring the dark side of e-commerce, with the laws of consumer protection traditional and new international partnerships in the battle any get-rich-quick systems on deceptive marketing practices and fraud.
In addition to forging new alliances with other public bodies and associations of consumers worldwide, the Agency works closely with state attorneys general and other federal agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission Postal Service and the Department of Justice.
And while the Federal Trade Commission has been most clearly at its Internet crackdowns targeting thousands of potentially fraudulent sites, other agencies to forge new alliances are to remove the traditional boundaries have impeded the court that the authorities prosecution and the Internet has been the digital equivalent of the Wild West.
State lawyers Consulate General in New York and Minnesota have succeeded criminally Internet gambling. The U.S. Customs Service, in collaboration with the Thai authorities of countries in the last month, arrested 18 online pharmacies, shipping illicit drugs sold in the USA. And the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been increasingly working with partners in the group of developed countries is known as the G-8 to fight against the intruder.
The efforts, ressortübergreifende a recent report by the Clinton administration, said that for most of the existing laws are sufficient to combat Internet crime. Any amendments to adapt to the new frontier in turn largely recommendations to increase fines for things like piracy.
The only area for the Clinton Administration has recommended new rules of turnover is in line medicine. But this goal would be U.S. laws based virtual pharmacies are not in countries like Thai country, like most in flagrant violation of U.S. laws.
The report, as the Department of Justice, said that in the future, no new laws should follow three principles: they should be processing online and offline, the same crimes, they must be neutral of technology, and it should take into account issues such as privacy and the need for the promotion of electronic commerce.
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