A new United Nations treaty establishes an international framework for investigating and prosecuting online crimes, such as ransomware attacks and financial fraud, which often involve multiple countries. While it explicitly defines cybercrime and spells out what law enforcement and companies are responsible for in such cases, concerns related to privacy and civil liberties have yet to be addressed. Companies with a global presence should start preparing for enforcement now. In crimes such as robberies or kidnappings, both the criminals and victims must directly interact in person, so it is obvious that they must both be in the same country for the crime to be committed. Local and/or federal authorities address such crimes. But cybercrimes involving data theft and ransomware, for example, can be (and often are) committed by criminals based in other countries. How can local authorities address such crimes' The lack of a formal structure for cooperatively investigating these crimes is...
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