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http://www.theregister.co.uk/000112-000016.html
Posted 12/01/2000 5:39pm by Thomas C. Greene
An online network of law-enforcement agents should be created and empowered
to
operate across jurisdictional lines with a minimum of red tape, US Attorney
General
Janet Reno announced yesterday. "There is a dark side of hacking, crashing
networks
and viruses that we absolutely must address," Reno told the National
Association of
Attorneys General during a conference at Stanford University on Monday.
Reno introduced her brainchild, dubbed LawNet, as an online law-enforcement
agency which would employ both alpha geeks and law-enforcement officers, and
which should be able to evade the jurisdictional red tape that often
obstructs
investigations and prosecutions of crimes carried out on or by means of the
Internet. It
would be useful in cases where the Net has served as a link between
criminal and
victim and so blurred numerous legal distinctions, including the most basic
question of
where such a crime has occurred.
Presumably, LawNet would constitute some sort of independent, stand-alone
law-enforcement agency charged with patrolling the Internet. "I envision a
network that
extends from local detectives to the FBI to investigators abroad," Reno
said. She also
proposed new interstate jurisdictional standards to simplify the execution
of warrants
pursuant to online investigations.
Reno cited an FBI survey of Fortune 500 companies claiming that 62 percent
reported
some form of computer security breach during the past year, a figure which
strikes us
as somewhat inflated, and most likely the result of considerable
statistical massaging
intended to alarm the public.
Reno's LawNet recapitulates a controversial White House proposal issued
last year
called FIDNET, which was roundly denounced by libertarian groups as an
Orwellian
initiative with great potential for government abuse of civilian privacy
and legal rights.
Reno would beg to differ. LawNet will address privacy issues, and actually
protect
online consumers from invasions like the recent CD Universe extortion case,
she
promised. �
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