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The role of the criminal law is to act as a deterent to conduct considered so damaging that the intervention of the state is warranted. Increasingly computer security issues have sought to use the power of criminal sanctions to deter abusive behaviour. This the approach taken by Canada. An additional set of civil and quasi-criminal remedies is also available under Copyright law. The paper reviews Canada’s experience with both the criminal and copyright sanctions in the context of computer abusive behaviour including that crried out through use of the internet. The importance of an effective computer use policy is emphasized throughout.
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Kratz, M.P.J., Verchere, B.J. (1996). Canada’s computer crime laws: Ten years of experience. In: Katsikas, S.K., Gritzalis, D. (eds) Information Systems Security. SEC 1996. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-5041-2919-0_11
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