What sort of international body should police the internet?
The recent London Conference on Cyberspace featured scores of politicians agreeing that the internet needed policing, but who is going to do it?
Politicians from 60 countries gathered last week for the London Conference on Cyberspace. One of the key aims was to encourage co-operation between nations to help combat cyber crime. Cyber crime is...
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