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REPORT OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE’S TASK FORCE ON INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
https:// www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/2004-10-01-Progress-Report-of-the-Department-of-Justice-s-Task-Force-on-Intellectual-Property-USDOJ-Oct-01-2004.pdf
In response to the growing threat of intellectual property crime, on March 31, 2004, the Attorney General of the United States announced the creation of the Department of Justice’s Task Force on Intellectual Property.
The Task Force was entrusted with a timely and important mission: to examine all of the Department of Justice’s intellectual property enforcement efforts and to explore methods for the Justice Department to strengthen its protection of the nation’s valuable intellectual resources. A team of legal experts, with a diverse range of expertise and experience, was assembled to tackle this undertaking.
The Task Force formed five working groups, or subcommittees, to explore important areas of intellectual property. These working groups, each comprised of relevant Task Force members and expert staff, were designed to ensure that the results would be thorough, comprehensive, and accurate. The working groups analyzed existing resources and proposed meaningful improvements in the following areas: (1) Criminal Enforcement, (2) International Cooperation, (3) Civil and Antitrust Enforcement, (4) Legislation, and (5) Prevention.
The Task Force also consulted other government agencies and gathered information from multiple sources outside the government, including victims of intellectual property theft, creators of intellectual property, community groups, and academia.
After six months of work, the Task Force submits this final report of recommendations to the Attorney General. These recommendations outline both substantive and tangible methods for the Department of Justice to expand and enhance its efforts in protecting the nation’s creative and intellectual resources.
TRUST WRAY
Identity theft case could be largest so far
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 Posted: 10:49 PM EDT (0249 GMT
"The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy," said Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray at a news conference in Washington.
"We will aggressively pursue those who steal private information from computer networks and make it clear that there are serious consequences for such crimes," he said.
http:// www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/07/21/cyber.theft/index.html?_s=PM:LAW
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Dutch government mulls ban on international child adoption amid trafficking fears
https:// uk.reuters.com/article/uk-netherlands-adoption-trafficking/dutch-government-mulls-ban-on-international-child-adoption-amid-trafficking-fears-idUKKBN1572BE
The Dutch government is expected to vote on whether to ban international child adoption amid concerns over the danger of trafficking and laundering children, raising the possibility that other countries could follow suit, experts say.
The vote, being closely watched by the child adoption industry worldwide, is expected in March and follows a report published by the Ministry of Justice that found the adoption process can be used as a front for child trafficking.
Published in November after a string of adoption scandals in recent years, the report was meant to provide advice for a change in policy on intercountry adoption to and from the Netherlands but offered near total condemnation of the process.
Of thousands of adoptions in recent years, the report said “a significant proportion involved serious misconduct, such as child laundering or the sale of a child” with the desire of some Western families for a child at any cost creating an “adoption market”.
Yrrah Van Der Kruit, an advisor at the Council for the Administration of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles and one of the report’s authors, said the findings were likely to prompt other countries to reconsider their adoption policies.
“If we really want to help the child, [intercountry] adoption has to stop,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
“For as long as rich countries continue to drive a market of adoption from poorer countries, we will have this problem, and the poor countries will not put the necessary developments in place to support their own children.”
The report said adequate regulation of intercountry adoption was impossible and the Dutch government needed to shift its focus to protecting children by supporting a “youth protection system in the country of origin”.
Before the end of January, the state secretary for security and justice is expected to publish his reaction to the report, which will be followed by a public consultation and then a parliamentary debate in preparation for a vote.
Lawmakers said the outcome of any vote was hard to predict with ministers deeply divided over the issue since 2015 when four leading political parties called for adoption regulation.
CHILD 'LAUNDERING"
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_laundering
Child laundering is a scheme whereby intercountry adoptions are effected by illegal and fraudulent means. It may involve the trafficking of children, the acquisition of children through monetary arrangements, deceit and/or force. The children may then be held in sham orphanages while formal international adoption processes are used to send the children to adoptive parents in another country.
Child laundering rings are often expansive with multiple hierarchies of people motivated by large profits from the black markets of intercountry adoptions.
With Westerners willing to spend thousands of dollars to adopt a child, enough monetary incentives are created to extend the laundering ring from the middle classes to societies' more affluent groups.
These "baby broker" families subsequently forge a new identity for the laundered child, "validating" the child's legal status as an orphan and ensuring the scheme will not be uncovered.[1]
Child laundering is highly controversial; while many argue that these children are being treated as a commodity and stripped of family contact, others argue that, ultimately, the children will live in a more affluent environment and have more opportunities as a result of this adoption.[2]
Hierarchy of involvement[edit]
There is a complex hierarchy within the child laundering business which includes governments, orphanages, intermediaries, birth families, and adoptive families.
The people who oversee these child laundering rings are estimated to make $2,000 to $20,000 per overseas adoption. Therefore, it is advantageous for these individuals to have the necessary language and social skills in order to work closely with Western adoption agencies.
Intermediaries are crucial in acquiring the child, for their job is to locate extremely impoverished parents who may be willing to relinquish their children out of necessity.[2]
Often, the people involved in recruiting and managing the adoption ring are local middle or upper class citizens, and they often have a negative view of the very poor.
Therefore, recruiters can rationalize taking these children from the biological family on the grounds that the child will be better reared in the West.[2]
Many members of foreign governments are bribed to hasten these illegitimate adoptions, and also to ignore the illegality of these criminal organizations.[2]