EU privacy watchdog worried about "vague" definition of cybercrime

Published 18 June 2013

Peter Hustinx, the supervisor of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), an EU privacy watchdog, said the European Commission (EC) should more precisely define what constitutes “cybercrime” so that personal data is not processed in cases where such processing cannot be legally justified. He said he was concerned about the “quite vague and broad” definition of “cybercrime,” which the Commission proposed earlier this year. The Commission made the proposal as part of a number of initiatives aiming to reduce cybercrime.

Source: http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2013/june/cybercrime-needs-to-be-better-defined-in-order-to-protect-privacy-rights-says-watchdog/