EU, US agree to share data on cross-border cyber crime
12 Jan 2013 6:48 AM IST
The European Union and the US agreed on Friday to share more data on cross-border cybercriminals at the opening of a new hi-tech unit aimed at helping police catch up with increasingly imaginative criminals.
‘This agreement will reinforce the cooperation, the exchange of information,’ Europol chief Rob Wainwright said at the opening of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) in The Hague.
EC3's task is to use its expertise to help European police investigations and coordinate data, but the unit that is housed within Europol will not itself initiate criminal probes.
With a budget of 4.6 million euros (USD 6.1 million) in 2013, the EC3's priority is to track people carrying out online fraud, ‘phishing’ for web users' private data, including bank account passwords, or dealing in paedophile pornography.
‘Cybercrime is a shared global problem,’ said John Morton, who heads the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
‘This agreement will reinforce the cooperation, the exchange of information,’ Europol chief Rob Wainwright said at the opening of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) in The Hague.
EC3's task is to use its expertise to help European police investigations and coordinate data, but the unit that is housed within Europol will not itself initiate criminal probes.
With a budget of 4.6 million euros (USD 6.1 million) in 2013, the EC3's priority is to track people carrying out online fraud, ‘phishing’ for web users' private data, including bank account passwords, or dealing in paedophile pornography.
‘Cybercrime is a shared global problem,’ said John Morton, who heads the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
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