14 DAY TRIAL // The web isn't what it used to be anymore, and now I'm thinking about the positive changes. If during the last century e-crime would most likely go unpunished, mainly because of the lack of laws, well, things are quite different now. Governments have finally opened their eyes and seen that cyber-crime is just as bad as any other type of crime. I don't know how much of a web-related news fan you are, but let me tell you that a lot more cyber-crooks get caught today than years ago. And that's not just because cyber-crime is escalading and there are more criminals for the police to nab, it's because of laws getting reviewed so that cyber-crooks could be rooted out. As you might have figured out, the Police can't do too much if they have no laws to support their actions - that's why more and more countries are issuing new projects to assess these threats.
Now, it's Canada's turn to "join the club" of countries with proper laws against cyber-crime. As Reuters informs, their government plans to criminalize identity theft so that the Police would have the ability to stop it before it can be actually be carried out. This is a great initiative, and even though (illegitimate) ID traffic is not new to the cyber-world it's good that they're issuing laws against it. You know what they say?better late than never.
To give you more details - it's not that ID fraud isn't a crime in Canada, they already had laws against that, but trafficking with ID information was generally not considered a crime, as Reuters further informs. So, they're trying to prevent things before they happen, and they're making sure that the Police have the right tools to operate with such crimes. Stopping damage before it's done is probably the best measure one could take. Nowadays, cyber-crime makes more money than drug-dealing, but perhaps, one day, things will get better, with a lot of great initiatives against it already popping up!