24th Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum – Combating Emerging Threats in Transnational Organized Crime Affecting the Caribbean and the Americas

Congressman Cal Urrutia spoke about cybercrime, cybersecurity and cyberdefense. He mentioned that legislators have an enormous responsibility with regard to transnational crime in all its forms, and Budapest is the largest international cooperation agreement that guides us to have in one line an essential trilogy for the fight against cybercrime.

There is an essential function for legislators to typify the crimes that Budapest recommends, another part that goes by the procedural law, and the third leg is international cooperation, which helps the countries that make it up tremendously in order to be able to exchange information.

Congressman Cal Urrutia shared that Uruguay is working on a cybersecurity law since 2020 that has some peculiarities and differences from other cybersecurity laws around the world. To combat cybercrime, the bill has dedicated itself to classifying crimes that even the Budapest Convention does not contemplate, such as digital terrorism, identity theft, and human trafficking. It also promotes a National Education campaign from early childhood to the elderly and has analyzed more than 1000 cases of cybercrime to classify some crimes that were not even contemplated in Budapest. The bill also seeks to classify precedent crimes before some of these can be carried out.