Cybercrime Code Ready
The Internet Industry Association (IIA) is released the draft of its Cybercrime code of conduct. The draft code is the result of more than a year of collaboration between the internet industry and representatives from police and crime authorities.
It represents an apparently successful attempt by the internet industry to avoid specific new laws being introduced to specify compliance with authorities.
What the code does is it ties the legislation into the practicalities of everyday life. The legislation is framed in general terms and doesn't get down to the specifics. When put that in place, they'll be the first country in the world to do that.
The code tries to strike a balance between law enforcement agencies' preference for indefinite archiving, and ISPs' desire to minimise resources spent on archiving.
The length of time agreed on for ISPs to keep data would vary between six and 12 months, depending the type of information.
If they kept all of the information for all the time, they wouldn't be able to build data centres fast enough to hold all the data.
Compliance with warranties should not place an undue burden on ISPs. Most ISPs with more than 100,000 subscribers may have to employ a full-time staff member, however, to comply with requests by police and agencies for user data and intercepts.
Much of the Cybercrime Code was developed to head off calls by law enforcement agencies for a legislative approach to ensure ISPs keep data on users and cooperated with investigations.
Law enforcement agencies appearing before a Joint Parliamentary Committee on the National Crime Authority last year raised the issue of record keeping by ISPs as one of the key issues it wanted addressed in order to improve the ability of law enforcers to keep up with changing technology.
The IIA's legal representatives argued that a self-regulatory approach, such as the Cybercrime task force, should be taken, rather than legislating new compliance requirements for ISPs.
The code will also cover caller-line identification (CLI).
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