ISPs Expected to Provide More Assistance in Combating Cybercrime
An international treaty group, the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, is moving to require more of ISPs when it comes to fighting cybercrime. The treaty has been signed by 43 countries, including the U.S. Questions are arising, though, do the proposed guidelines go too far?
The threat from cybercrime is undeniable (see yesterday's post or the McAfee Virtual Criminology Report for more) but to what degree?
Peter Sommers, of the London School of Economics, argues in the Herald Tribune:
"One of the great consequences of all of this is that an agenda is created for a society that is under surveillance," .... "And in the panic, we lose the quality of control." "and "
"You can talk yourself into the threat of terrorism or cyberterrorism that has no relationship to the actual risk you face."
One of the ways to get data on the risks we face is by monitoring and collecting data from ISPs. Internet service providers will have additional work to comply with proposed requirements but there is a long term benefit to the entire industry. ISPs are already dealing with large volumes of spam taxing their bandwidth and storage and they are better able to deal with that collectively than individually. The same goes for cybercrime.
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