August 4, 2006 2:24PM # How Did You Like the Cybercrime Treaty Debate? By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) --- SHARE Perhaps you weren’t aware of the Senate’s debate over the [cybercrime treaty](http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/185.htm). You would be like most people. The Senate quietly approved the cybercrime treaty [yesterday](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/AR2006080400479.html). The treaty is the product of [years of diligent work](http://news.com.com/2100-1001-268894.html) among governments’ law enforcement departments to increase their collaboration. It lacks a dual criminality requirement, so Americans may be investigated in the United States for things that are not crimes here. And it applies not just to “cyber” crimes but to digital evidence of any crime, so foreign governments now may begin using U.S. law enforcement to help them gather evidence in all kinds of cases.  But you already knew that if you were following the debate. You were following the debate, weren’t you? ##### Related Tags [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Technology and Privacy](https://www.cato.org/technology-privacy), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).