Cybercrime, human rights and digital politics

Abstract

This chapter explores how cybercrime and cybercrime regulation interacts with the protection of human rights, which calls against overly broad criminalization but may also call for the criminalization to protect potential victims of crime. On this background, the core challenges of cybercrime and cybercrime investigations are explored, including questions of international cooperation in criminal matters. Particular focus is spent on the legal framework set out by the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime of 2001 (Budapest Convention), but also on more modern forms of cooperation such as those envisaged by the US Cloud Act and the EU e-evidence Regulation.