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cybercrimealso known as computer crimeAny use of a computer as an instrument to further illegal ends, such as committing fraud, trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property, stealing identities, or violating privacy. Cybercrime, especially through the Internet, has grown in importance as the computer has become central to commerce, entertainment, and government. The international nature of cybercrimes has led to international cyberlaws.
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With this background, the Tenth UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, in its Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice, has decided to develop action-oriented policy recommendations and to work towards "enhancing our ability to prevent, investigate and prosecute high-technology and computer-related crime. So far this year, the LAPD unit that handles sex crimes against children says it has arrested 15 people for computer-related crimes involving minors - compared to six arrests last year - and is investigating 14 other reports. To my knowledge, the first case for which lawyers worked collaboratively in this way involved an alleged computer-related crime in California in 1983. |
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