Cybercrime – a new word for the old wrongdoing
Criminality throughout the world is on the increase as we lose our way.
Freedom has given way to licence for much wrongdoing that should have been controlled and remedied without sufficient response by the Law that curbs recurrence of these actions.
We hear of murderers who after a short time of serving a portion of their sentence are released on parole and a high percentage are known to reoffend in a short space of time. We hear of cases that are tried by Law but result in popular condemnation of the final decision and sentence. We all want our legal system to be just and we want our citizens to be law abiding. But crime continues; only to have moved with incredible speed into the region of the promised Web of Light that would connect us all in peaceful brotherhood, allow us to share our knowledge, communicate with others when lonely, and to stimulate the global sense of humanity as one family working for a brighter future.
Disappointment that we have not made a success of the ideals behind the opportunity we had to truly link the whole world in co-operative sense of brotherhood and in helping one another may be understandable. But when the potential to benefit the whole of our civilization is undermined by abuses to the technicalities that allow immense criminal activity to flourish to the degree that exists, we have a dilemma with no apparent remedy at this point in time.
There are 40 nations that are signatories to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime.
New drafts are required for regulatory measures that will be effective at least in part.
Australia is making signals of implementing a Bill drafted by the Joint Select committee on Cyber-Safety having tabled its review of the Bill. Definite inadequate attention has been pointed out as weakness on some issues in the Bill. Controversial matters have also arisen in other issues. The Bill is not to be rushed through as seemed to be the impetus behind it. Better that care is given to a very serious facet of national and international crime and how to contain it.
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