United States' Sovereignty Threatened With Cybercrime Treaty

[tracysaboe]

From LP NEWS

Before they headed off to their August recess, the Senate ratified the Council of Europe's Cybercrime Treaty. Former Congressman Bob Barr states that the treaty not only covers traditional cybercrimes, but "covers any activities considered a crime by any signatory country that simply involves the use of a computer somewhere along the line."

http://digg.com/politics/United_States_Sovereignty_Threatened_With_Cybercrime_Treaty

Please read and digg. (If you want, of course.)

Tracy

[aries]

I hope the Chileans want to dig up dirt on me and get a virtual warrant 

Word to the wise - keep your most secure data encrypted and do not access it on an online computer (simply UNPLUG your internet). Encrypt as many of your online dealings as you can.

Here's some info you might find useful:
http://glosoli.blogspot.com/2005/09/encrypted-thumb-drive-and-autoplay.html

I tend to keep any documents linked from here, pro-liberty things, as well as more devious information encrypted and hidden somewhere, as even though you can buy the anti-federalist papers (among other historical documents) in a book store, they tend to become evidence in prosecutions for things like tax evasion.

[BaRbArIaN]

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20060819-095338-7577r.htm

More on this travesty.  Apparently anyone in another country can get a lot of data on you just by calling up the Feds and asking, even if what they are asking about isn't illegal here.  Its a short hop to mass extraditions for noncrimes.

[Atlas]

Make sure to let the NH neo-senators know what yall think. If not, they should be targetted for defeat. Well, they should be defeated anyways.

[tracysaboe]

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20060819-095338-7577r.htm

More on this travesty.  Apparently anyone in another country can get a lot of data on you just by calling up the Feds and asking, even if what they are asking about isn't illegal here.  Its a short hop to mass extraditions for noncrimes.

I dugg it.
http://digg.com/politics/Trashing_privacy_with_the_Cybercrime_Treaty
Tracy