Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism

GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in a report 
published in May 2011, acknowledges that the legal and policy framework for pro-
tecting children in the global digital network is extremely hazardous and complex. 
The complex policy challenges include: how to mitigate risks without reducing the 
opportunities and benefits for children online; how to prevent risks while preserving 
fundamental values for all Internet users; how to ensure that policies are proportion-
ate to the problem and do not unsettle the framework conditions that have enabled 
the Internet economy to flourish?
Furthermore, governments have tended to tackle online-related sexual exploita-
tion and abuse with an emphasis on building the “architecture” to protect or rescue 
children—establishing legislation, pursuing and prosecuting abusers, raising aware-
ness, reducing access to harm and supporting children to recover from abuse or ex-
ploitation. These are essential components of a protection response.
It is also worth noting that despite various efforts we are far from a globally 
agreed set of guidelines and legal framework that protects children from serious risks 
they face on-line. Clearly this is a serious gap exploited by criminals and those who 
have vested interest in using the current “freedoms” for personal monitory benefit.
TECHNICAL ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
A CASE STUDY ON USE OF TECHNOLOGY AND PROPOSED 
METHODOLOGY
In a research conducted by 
Lannon and Halpin (2013)
, to investigate the develop-
ment and delivery of a Missing Child Alert (MCA) program, an initiative instigated 
and led by Plan International (referred to as Plan) in 2012, the feasibility of develop-
ing a technology-enabled system that would act as a digital alert system providing 
support for relevant government and nongovernment agencies dealing with Child 
Trafficking in South East Asia was explored (
Lannon and Halpin, 2013
).

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