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The E-crime Strategy
New and developing communication technologies offer massive benefits but also present new opportunities for criminals.
The E-crime Strategy will provide the framework for future measures to tackle Internet crime.
The strategy will focus on:
Existing crimes committed using new technology, such as fraud and paedophilia, as well as emerging e-crimes, such as denial of service attacks, viruses and hacking.
An analysis of the current law and future nature of e-crime, providing a framework for Government, law enforcement agencies and industry.
Ensuring existing international agreements, such as the EU Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems, meet the new challenges of e-crime.
Currently information on Internet crime is gathered via various surveys. The E-crime Strategy will pull together the information we have and present a plan to gather that information more comprehensively in the future.
Surveys – How much Internet crime is there?
Although we do not yet have a clear picture of the level of Internet crime we do gather some information via various surveys.
British Crime Survey – The British Crime Survey (BCS) contains information about levels of crime and public attitudes to crime and other Home Office issues. The results play an important role in informing Home Office policy.
Information Security Breaches Survey – A Department of Trade and Industry-sponsored survey for businesses. This survey is intended to help UK businesses understand the risks they face in the information security arena.
NCIS assessment - As part of its annual analysis of the threat posed by serious and organised crime, the National Criminal Intelligence Service produce an assessment on high-tech crime. This is a more detailed analysis of some of the different forms of Internet crime.
The E-crime Strategy will include a fuller analysis of what we know (and what we don't know) about Internet crime, and will be published on this site.
Last update: Wednesday, September 03, 2008