Discuss the legal and enforcement efforts that have been implemented to control cybercrime

What will be an ideal response?


The growth of cybercrime and its cost to the economy has created the need for new laws and enforcement processes specifically aimed at controlling its new and emerging formulations. Congress has treated computer-related crime as a distinct federal offense since passage of the Counterfeit Access Device and Computer Fraud and Abuse Law in 1984 . Because cybercrime is new, existing laws sometimes are inadequate to address the problem. Therefore, new legislation has been drafted to protect the public from this new breed of cybercriminal. Specialized enforcement agencies have been created to crack down on cybercriminals.

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