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Crime and the Criminal Internet Laws

            Cyber Space Law Right now there is a very interesting war being waged in the court rooms across America. It is a battle for the rights of citizens on the Internet. The Internet is a fairly new medium gaining wide popularity in 1994. Because of its incredible growth in popularity in a very short amount of time it has been hard to regulate. The first act to come out regarding the Internet and Freedom of Speech was PL 99-508 the Electronic Communications and Privacy Act of 1986 . This act consisted of two parts, title I and title II. Title I - Interception of Communications and Related Matters. Basically takes the existing laws and updates them to include computers. Where before it was illegal to intercept private telephone calls, it now says it is illegal to intercept private computer transmissions. It also includes a provision to make it legal to intercept public radio transmissions like it is with public radio programs. It also allows Internet Service Providers to keep a log o!.
             f who called and their activity on-line to protect themselves. Title II - Stored Wire and Electronic Communications and Transactional Records Access. This provision adds sections to Title 18 of the United States Code (USC). In section 2701 - Unlawful Access to Stored Communications; it makes it a federal offense to hack into a computer system. Actually what it says is that it is not illegal to gain access but once you do gain access, by mistake or intention, it is illegal to continue to access the computer system. This crime is punishable by $5000 or up to six months in jail. Section 2703 of USC Title 18 is the section that instructs Internet Service Providers to keep a back-up record of your activities on-line with a court order from a government entity. Then after the government notifies the individual in question, the material is either used by the agency or is destroyed. Probably the biggest battle yet over the first amendment rights so far has been the Communications Decency Act or CDA.


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1. Computer Crime and Prevention

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2. On Fear and Freedom

... if the primary purpose were a criminal investigation. Intelligence surveillance merely needs to be only a "significant" purpose. This provision authorizes unconstitutional physical searches and wiretaps: though it is searching primarily for evidence of crime, law enforcement conducts a search without probable cause of crime. 2. The USA Patriot Act extends a very low threshold of proof for access to Internet ... known for: its complete abdication of democratic law and principles. It should be called the Constitution Shredding Act. In particular, it utterly relinquishes any semblance of du...

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3. What is Computer Crime??

... , cyber porn, pirating, and cyber stalking, just to name a few. And these various cyber crimes fall into an elusive gray area of internet law that is neither fully nor partially covered by any existing comprehensive laws. Most things posted online can be covered with the first amendment - freedom of speech, which makes this new and dangerous terrain immensely difficult to ... Tech Crime Investigations in the fall of 2003. She is a forensics specialist, and had plenty to say in relation to her perspective on the subject matter - Because of the anonymous nature of the Internet, it is possi...

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4. INTERNET CRIME

... a new realm of human activity and undermining the feasibility "and legitimacy "of applying laws based on geographic boundaries."" (Post and Johnson 1996) The Internet is a relatively new phenomenon and this "cyberspace- is causing problems for regulatory systems. The Internet is a world that is very difficult to govern and it is because of this that criminals are discovering the net as a place to conduct ... there has been a surge of them for entertainment in the last two decades. The growing awareness of the computer and the Internet has produced individuals with the knowledge to accompl...

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5. Cyber-crimes: Cyber-terrorism and Hacking

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6. Computer Crime

... what crime is. Firstly, crime is a behaviour that violates criminal law and is punishable with fines, jail or other sanctions"(Kendall 1999; 161). Yet since computer technology is so new it has really no laws to govern it. Many of the crimes committed on computers often times go unpunished. Many of the crimes that are also committed on computers via the Internet ... are very new also. New subcultures have formed around the Internet for the ... possibilities it brings. Computer crime ... ...

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7. Computer Crime

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8. Hate Crimes: The Insufficiently Recognized Problem

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10. The Injustice of Human Trafficking

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