The E-crime Strategy
New and developing communication technologies offer
massive benefits but also present new opportunities
for criminals.
The E-crime Strategy will be produced in Autumn 2004
and will provide the framework for future measures to
tackle Internet crime.
The strategy will focus on:
- Existing crimes committed using new technology,
such as fraud and paedophilia, as well as emerging
e-crimes, such as denial of service attacks, viruses
and hacking.
- An analysis of the current law and future nature
of e-crime, providing a framework for Government,
law enforcement agencies and industry.
- Ensuring existing international agreements, such
as the EU
Framework Decision on Attacks against Information
Systems, meet the new challenges of e-crime.
Currently information on Internet crime is gathered
via various surveys. The E-crime
Strategy will pull together the information we have
and present a plan to gather that information more comprehensively
in the future.
Surveys – How much Internet
crime is there?
Although we do not yet have a clear picture of the
level of Internet crime we do gather some information
via various surveys.
- British
Crime Survey – The British Crime Survey (BCS)
contains information about levels of crime and public
attitudes to crime and other Home Office issues. The
results play an important role in informing Home Office
policy.
- NHTCU/NOP
survey – This survey on the impact of hi-tech
crime on UK businesses can be found in the ‘downloads’
section of the National High-tech Crime Unit website.
- Information
Security Breaches Survey – A Department of
Trade and Industry-sponsored survey for businesses.
This survey is intended to help UK businesses understand
the risks they face in the information security arena.
- NCIS
assessment - As part of its annual analysis of the
threat posed by serious and organised crime, the National
Criminal Intelligence Service produce an assessment
on high-tech crime. This is a more detailed analysis
of some of the different forms of Internet crime.
The E-crime Strategy – which will include a fuller
analysis of what we know (and what we don't know) about
Internet crime – will be available in Autumn 2004,
and will be published on this site.
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