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Objective
As the use of the internet and other computer networks has grown exponentially in recent years, so has the opportunity for online unlawful activities. Criminals can trade and share information masking their identity, make contact with and gather information on victims, and communicate with coconspirators.
This seminar will look at different forms of special investigation techniques to tackle internet crimes (remote investigations, online
surveillance, covert investigations) and at the challenges posed by encrypted data, proxy servers and cloud computing.
Key topics
- Remote investigations and online surveillance
- Interception, search and seizure
- Encryption, proxy servers and internet archives
- Electronic evidence and the essential difference between e-evidence and “traditional” forms of evidence
- Cross-border access to data
Who should attend?
Judges, prosecutors, police officers, defence lawyers, civil servants, policymakers and representatives of the internet industry.
About the project
This seminar is part of a large-scale project sponsored by the European Commission and entitled “Investigating, prosecuting and adjudicating criminal cases in the online world: challenges (and opportunities) posed by the internet to EU legal practitioners”. It consists of five seminars taking place in Budapest, Madrid, Lisbon, Cracow and Trier.
Each seminar will have a specific focus:
- Internet-related money laundering (Budapest, March 2016)
- Specific legal challenges related to credit cards frauds (Madrid, May 2016)
- Special techniques to track crime proceeds on
the internet: remote investigations, surveillance, interception, search
and seizure (Lisbon, November 2016)
- Soliciting children online for sexual purposes: effectiveness of covert internet investigations (Cracow, April 2017)
- Conducting online investigations: challenges for judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers (Trier, June 2017)
Please
note that due to the large number of applications for this series on
online investigations, participants can register only for 1 event (at
their choice) out of the 5 contemplated above.
Participation conditions
The number of places available for participants is limited.
Applications will be accepted on a first come, first served basis and
according to nationalities. All applicants will be informed if they have
been selected or not 10 working days after registration has closed.
Travel
costs up to €300 (including taxi costs) and two nights' hotel
accommodation up to €100 per night will be reimbursed by ERA upon
receipt of the original receipts, tickets, boarding passes, invoices
after the seminar.
Participants are asked to book their own travel and accommodation.
These
rules do not apply to representatives of EU Institutions and Agencies
who are supposed to cover their own travel and accommodation.
Participants should come from eligible EU Member States (UK and Denmark do not participate to the Justice Programme 2014-2020).