UK to review cybercrime law

Britain is to update its lone cybercrime law, a 1990 pre-Web relic widely regarded as inadequate to deal with growing computer criminality. Organized gangs around the world are honing their hacking, spamming and virus-writing skills while thinly stretched police resources are struggling to cope. The legal update will be closely watched by other countries, many of whose own laws against cybercrime are considered insufficient to fight what has become one of the fastest growing global crime waves.

A group of parliamentarians will hold a public debate on Thursday to explore ways to bring the Computer Misuse Act, or CMA, into the Internet era.

Working with the UK's Home Office, the aim is to have a new cybercrime bill introduced in the next six months, MP Brian White told Reuters.

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