Industry committee  I totally agree. In fact, the methodology and the techniques that were operating behind these 7,000 servers for sending spam mail were actually very complicated. They operate in an automatic way, so I agree with you that we need some sort of technical support.

Industry committee  I'm sorry, but I'm not in a very professional position to comment on this, because I haven't spent much time studying others. If we really need to, we can come back and talk to you at a later stage.

Industry committee  We have some studies.

Industry committee  We don't have any special units in Interpol for doing those kinds of things, but I can give you one example of how spam emails were involved in cybercrime. We did an operation in the ASEAN region early this year, and with the assistance of some private companies we were able to i

Industry committee  Maybe I can try to provide that from a practical point of view. You probably heard me mention that Interpol works with one of the west African countries. We were able to analyze the computer of a particular suspect and found that the suspect was using some automated programs on t

Industry committee  There are different perspectives. Either it can be developed in Canada and then operated in other countries, or it is developed and also operated in Canada. When considering legislation, I think we need to look into this aspect. This is more about the criminal aspect, and it is r

Industry committee  I would say that the current situation is sufficient in most cases. Currently we have established systems for sharing information and connecting different police forces to the platform of Interpol. I would say that is sufficient for general purposes. For spamming information in

Industry committee  As I mentioned, Canada participates in some international conferences concerning business email being compromised. They're very keen to work with Interpol and other countries in tackling these issues. I must say that currently we don't have established systems to share case infor

Industry committee  Yes and no. We don't have the systems to share it. Also, we need to consider how we will work on the shared data even if we eventually, let's say, have the systems to analyze it. I understand that the situation is a bit different from the European countries. At Europol, they ha

Industry committee  I think first of all we need to distinguish between two kinds of spamming emails. Some spamming emails focus only on business information, and some spamming emails have documents or files attached to them. We are basically focusing on those spamming emails with attachments. There

Industry committee  I would suggest that we can look at this matter at two different levels. First of all, there are the messages sent from people in the business sectors. They don't have malicious intent when sending out those emails. Maybe those are for a commercial purpose, but they're just abusi

Industry committee  Let me clarify a bit. Are you concerned about the effect or about the ability of the spamming emails to cost individuals?

Industry committee  Anti-spam legislation is still not being enforced in some countries, especially developing countries. I'm not able to comment on the Canadian legislation in a very professional manner. I have done a lot of assessment of different countries—for example, some of the developing coun

Industry committee  Our main concern is cybercrime, the actual crime that arises from spamming, and we have organized a number of international conferences to address this issue. In the conference we held in Madrid, in June, Canada was one of the countries that expressed a concern about business e

Industry committee  We don't have many studies about this. I'm not sure I can share some of my experiences with you, but as I mentioned, we focused mainly on the criminal investigation. As I said, spamming is one of the major sources of a lot of cybercrime, especially BEC or the ransomware that we m