The council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime
Abstract
TThe council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (November 23rd 2001) recognizes and assumes the possibility of evading criminal conduct beyond the boarders of the country where the crime was committed. The Convention proposes a functionalist theory of penal law in order to base the imposition of the sentence guaranteeing fundamentals rights. The author highlights the inadequacy of traditional systems aim at persecuting informatics crime. He considers, however, that the Convention puts cyber crime and habitual delinquency on the same footing. It demands from Party States the adoption of a specific manner of investigation (electronic evidence, confiscation through informatics systems, traffic data collection, among others) Nevertheless, the Convention has been often criticized because it may jeopardize privacy.Keywords:
Informatic crime, privacy, cybercrime, Convention on Cybercrime.References
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Consejo de Europa, «583 Reunión de Delegados Ministeriales», 4 de febrero de 1997, apéndice 13, disponible en <http://www.cm.coe.int/dec/1997/583/583.a13.html>.
Consejo de Europa, «583 Reunión de Delegados Ministeriales», 4 de febrero de 1997, apéndice 13, disponible en <http://www.cm.coe.int/dec/1997/583/583.a13.html>.
