The European Union (EU) is examining a plan to use “crowd sourcing” to fight internet crime, allowing members of the public to connect directly with police and report internet security attacks and online scams.
The BBC is reporting that the millions of computer users across the EU could be galvanised into joining the fight against cybercriminals, with all data about internet crime collected and “reported online at a national level, in a harmonised way across the EU.”
Those are the words of Rob Wainwright, director of Europol, who briefed a Lords EU sub-committee on plans for a European centre to fight cybercrime.
“For the first time the EU will have a comprehensive overview of reported cybercrime from within its own borders and this could even include, in the future, a component of direct engagement with the public,” the BBC reports him as saying.
Certainly, greater…
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