- Posted on July 2, 2020
- Jennifer Daskal
The world’s first cybercrime treaty is undergoing an update. When the Budapest Convention was drafted approximately 20 years ago, the treaty focused on harmonizing laws and increasing cooperation across borders so that a range of cybercrime, such as a denial of service attack or the release of a computer virus, could be prosecuted in the multiple countries affected. It was written before the exponential growth in Internet usage, the development of cloud computing, and the digitalization of just about every [...]