Are the trade-offs for reducing cross-border cybercrime manageable?

• Main Authors: MILLER, Steven Mark, WANG, Qiu-Hong, KAUFFMAN, Robert John
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Cybersecurity; Innovation; International Crime; Privacy; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3778; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4780/viewcontent/TradeoffsCrossBorderCybercrime_2017.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Without increased government intervention andgovernment-industry collaboration, the advantages inherent in the next wave ofInternet-enabled digital transformation will increasingly tilt towardcyber criminals, and their influence will disproportionately increase. The dilemma that immediately presents itself in such ascenario, however, is that an increased level of government involvement canalso lead to undesirable consequences. Increasing security always comes withtrade-offs that must be managed. The obvious concerns relate to the erosion ofprivacy, illegal or extralegal persecution, the abuse of Internet censorshipand the impediment to or stifling of innovation.