OTTAWA – In a new approach to cybercrime, the RCMP plans to address the challenge of policing digital misdeeds when perpetrators – and the evidence needed to catch them – often prove elusive.
The Mounties will outline the national police force’s cybercrime strategy today.
RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson told a security conference last week that police exhibit rooms are stacked with digital devices – and the trick is finding ways to extract the valuable evidence on them.
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In his speech, Paulson warned that while the Internet is a marvellous place, it has a dark and dangerous side.
The top Mountie said he supports a sensible administrative scheme that would give police warrantless access to basic information about Internet subscribers.
In a report last year, the RCMP said cybercrime demands new ways of policing to keep pace with illicit exploitation of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, social-media platforms, anonymous online networks and virtual currency schemes.
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