The Act gives police the power to detain suspects for 48-hours without a warrant. Thus, the owner of Demon Internet, has broken ranks with the rest of the UK ISP industry by stating it will remove all paedophilic material from its servers, taking responsibilty itself for tracking down the illegal content. An evangelical Christian lecturer who helped run his local church youth club was convicted yesterday of sexually assaulting a schoolboy he befriended through an internet gay chatroom. Canada plans new laws this year intended to prevent predatory adults from using the Internet to lure children. Con men succeeded in stealing credit card numbers and other information from 10,000 Web surfers with a fake e-mail asking them to register anew with Brazil's biggest Internet portal.
Cybercrime is one of the fastest-growing criminal activities on the planet.
It covers a huge range of illegal activity including financial scams, computer hacking, downloading pornographic images from the internet, virus attacks, stalking by e-mail and creating websites that promote racial hatred. A man accused of luring a Florida girl to Greece over the Internet was charged with kidnapping and sexual assault. Seven British men, who peddled child pornography on the internet, were jailed for between 12 and 30 months each. Under laws applying at the time the men were charged, the maximum jail term for each was three years. An Internet service provider pleaded guilty to criminal facilitation in a breakthrough case against child pornography.