CyberCrime Laws Go Global

espo812 of slashdot reports “A story from Washingtonpost.com says, ‘The Senate has ratified a treaty under which the United States will join more than 40 other countries, mainly from Europe, in fighting crimes committed via the Internet.’ Ars Technica says it’s the ‘World’s Worst Internet Law.’”

From the Ars story: “According to the EFF, ‘The treaty requires that the U.S. government help enforce other countries’ ‘cybercrime’ laws–even if the act being prosecuted is not illegal in the United States. That means that countries that have laws limiting free speech on the Net could oblige the F.B.I. to uncover the identities of anonymous U.S. critics, or monitor their communications on behalf of foreign governments. American ISPs would be obliged to obey other jurisdictions’ requests to log their users’ behaviour without due process, or compensation.”

Source : Slashdot - U.S. Senate Ratifies Cybercrime Treaty