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12 February 2016 / Rebecca Dix
Issue: 7686 / Categories: Features , Profession , Criminal
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Rebecca Dix reports on government attempts to tackle escalating cyber-crime

When a person or organisation has been a victim of online crime the responsibility falls to the enforcement agencies to act appropriately. The current investigatory laws available to the enforcement agencies lie within various statutes made over the last 19 years. These include the: Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000; Police Act 1997; Justice and Security Act 2013 and the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (DRIPA 2014).

DRIPA 2014 was an emergency statute made as a consequence of a declaration of invalidity made by the Court of Justice of the European Union in relation to Directive 2006/ 24/EC—the Directive that governs the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks.

Some of the key elements of DRIPA seek to address the retention of certain communications data and the grounds for issuing interception warrants. With it being a temporary measure the shelf life of DRIPA 2014 expires on 31 December

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