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Japan: Police to Add Cybercrime to Bounty System |
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yomiuri.co.jp |
| Source Date: |
Saturday, December 08, 2012 |
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Electronic and Mobile Government, Citizen Engagement, Internet Governance
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| Country: |
Japan |
| Created: |
Dec 11, 2012 |
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The National Police Agency has decided to expand the scope of crimes that can be covered under its reward system to include cases other than homicide, kidnapping and other life-threatening crimes.
The decision, made Thursday, comes in response to a recent case in which four innocent people were arrested on false accusations of making online threats.
Police later found those threats were sent from their personal computers infected with a remote-controllable virus, without their knowledge, and released the four.
The agency said it planned to implement the revision immediately.
Since the arrests were made largely due to a lack of effective means of investigating cybercrimes, the agency decided to relax its rules for the bounty system to include a wider variety of cases in the hope this will lead to gathering more information.
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