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Breaking News -
Security:
EU Sets Up Internet Security
Agency
The European Union governments agreed to launch an agency to protect the
Internet by alerting the public about computer viruses, identity theft and
other crimes committed online.
The European Network and Information Security Agency is to be operational
in
early 2004.
It is to help governments, businesses and consumers protect their computer
systems and data and inject some order in the varying approaches EU nations
have taken so far to combat Internet crimes.
"Trust and security are crucial components in the information society,"
Erkki
Liikanen, the EU's information society commissioner, said in a statement.
"As information flows freely across national borders, so will the network
and
information security problems," the EU executive commission said in a
statement
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