Cybercrime and other crime involving electronic evidence affects the right to private life of hundreds of millions of individuals whose personal data are stolen; attacks the dignity and the integrity of individuals; is a threat to the freedom of expression, public security but also democratic stability.
An effective criminal justice response is needed in order to protect societies against cybercrime while also protecting individuals' fundamental human rights.
The new HELP course will introduce you to the basic concepts related to cybercrime and electronic evidence. In doing so, the course makes an overview of the challenges in investigating cybercrime, as well as the difficulties in collecting and handling of electronic evidence.
The Budapest Convention on Cybercrime remains the key source throughout the whole course as it provides tools to deal with the above challenges for the protection of human rights and enforcement of legal order.
This course was developed jointly by the Cybercrime Programme Office and the Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) Programme of the Council of Europe, with support of the Cybercrime@Octopus and the follow-up Octopus projects, funded by voluntary contributions. Joint CoE / EU projects GLACY+ and CyberEAST supported as well development of this course.
This new HELP course is addressed to the criminal justice authorities worldwide, legal practitioners, defence attorneys, professionals for child protection, and anyone willing to improve their knowledge on cybercrime and electronic evidence.
Comprising 7 substantive modules, its offers learners practical tools to understand how to better reconcile the procedural powers to tackle cybercrime and the handling of electronic evidence with human rights standards:
Module 1: Introduction to computers, networks and cybercrime
Module 2: Introduction to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime
Module 3: Substantive provisions
Module 4: Electronic evidence and the Budapest Convention procedural provisions
Module 5: International cooperation provisions
Module 6: Cybercrime in practice and Human Rights
Module 7: The Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention
You can access the course here.
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