Wednesday, February 28, 2007

UK: Police Limit e-Crime Probes

Tom Young writes on Computing (UK):

Local police are imposing a threshold value below which e-crimes are not investigated, according to UK businesses who regularly report offences.

Lack of technical knowledge and investigation tools means police are setting informal financial limits, it emerged last week.

Garreth Griffith, head of trust and safety at eBay UK, told a House of Lords Science and Technology Committee on Personal Internet Security that many crimes go unreported as a result.

More here.

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