Legal Issues In Cybercrime

either by omission or intentionally. The scope of the Act encompasses scenarios that can arise in cybercrimes. , In spite of the enhanced Fraud Act 2006,

The U.K. Government was involved in the creation of two treaties on the prevention of cybercrime, under the CoE and the EU, both of which originated in Europe and both of which calls for international coordination to tackle abuses of computer systems. They are the Cybercrime Convention of 2001 and the E.U. Council Framework Decision on Attacks Against Information Systems (OJ L 069, 16 March 2005), which was proposed on 19 April 2002, adopted on 24 February 2005 and required to be transposed into national law by 16 March 2007 by member states. The UK opted out of the framework decision in December 2014.

Cybercrime have given rise to new concepts in criminal activities that traditional law does not cover. One of the legal challenges in fighting cybercrime as mentioned before is definition of concepts. Definitions are very important aspect and a common element of the judicial framework

The use of digital evidence found in mobile phones and emails are now being used in traditional crime investigation and prosecution. The United Kingdom Police and Criminal Evidence Code (currently reviewed by the (Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005) defines digital evidence as “all information contained in a computer”. The definition of computer here covers broad spectrum electronic appliances. A definition of Computer in the 2002 Commonwealth Model Law on Computer and Computer-related Crime defines a “Computer system” as a device or a group of inter-connected or related devices, including the Internet, one or more of which, pursuant to a program, performs automatic processing of data or any other