Does not the pursuit of cybercriminals attempt the ordinary Internet user's freedom ?

The development of the information technologies and communication networks entailed a rise in cybercriminality, ie offenses committed by electronic medias. Actually, cybercriminality is increasing as it's becoming more lucrative. The FBI estimates that American companies alone lose more than 70 billion.

I'll take one example of cybercriminality : pedophilia on the Internet. The initiative in the fight against pedophilia is interesting because it is based on the civic responsibility of Internet users. However, its application is very limited in time and space. In particular, as the content of Web pages is extremely volatile, a notification at a precise moment in time risks losing all legal value if the incriminating photos are removed from the server before the competent administration visualizes them. More troubling, what powers of intervention do national police forces truly have concerning photos that are published on anonymous servers in distant countries?

Concerning the international Convention on Cybercrime, European countries did their utmost to include an article aimed at combating Web sites with xenophobic or racist content. But there were confronted with the refusal of the United States, invoking the first article of their Constitution.

As for the measures concerning cryptography and the control of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) connection files, they raise the problem of individual liberties and the respect of anonymity. The current projects risk penalizing above all the ordinary Internet user, without reaching the real cybercriminals who are often one step ahead in terms of ingenuity and technological innovation.