The United States recently joined 29 other countries in signing the Convention on Cybercrime, an international treaty aimed at strengthening the signatories’ ability to combat computer crime. It is likely that the Senate will soon ratify this treaty. Such ratification will mean, in turn, the enactment of much legislation aimed at compliance with the treaty’s obligations.
Among other things, the treaty mandates the criminalization of a list of computer activities, imposes corporate liability for failure to diligently supervise employees, requires that each signatory provide for the preservation and production of stored computer data, states that each signatory shall have the ability to collect traffic and content data in real time, and sets up a system of mutual assistance among nations for the investigation and monitoring of cybercrime.
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