[governance] CAC - combating against comptuter assisted crime

[JFC Morfin]

Computers and the Internet permit computer assisted crimes, felonies, 
thefts, frauds, etc. which are more difficult to spot or to oppose 
because a computer was involved. From spam to hidden bank charges (by 
the computer) or taxes or additional costs, or crazy automated 
relational processes, etc. 
http://legal.practitioner.com/computer-crime/computercrime_2_3_1.htm

Civil society should consider starting a worldwide campaign for 
national laws to consider computer assistance as an aggravating 
circumstance when committing an offence. This simply makes sense 
because when someone is computer assisted it is as if they had an 
accomplice and also means at least some form of premeditation and 
some form of remote physical impunity. If Majors were able to protect 
and create new Internet rights, why can't the people protect and 
create new Computer/Internet related rights in that same, very simple 
manner. Considering computer assistance as a possibly aggravating 
circumstance would most probably help better qualifying facts and 
educate people in how to better defend themselves in our computer age.

A generalized computer assisted crime is certainly the way any 
organization of some size, and that deals with people diversity, 
automates its relations with people as if they were computers (it is 
simpler, cheaper, and lawyerless) and carries it to its sole benefit. 
This is why I am sure every one of us has met a circumstance when 
he/she has accepted to pay something undue because the demand came 
from a computer assisted organization, and disputing it would have 
been more of a pain than paying it.

jfc

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