Wisconsin, like all other states, has created its own set of laws and penalties pertaining to identity theft. According to data provided by Carnegie Mellon University, theft of identity occurs when a person acquires and uses someone else's personal information...
Internet Crimes
What is the Internet crime of cyberstalking?
The Department of Justice defines stalking as a pattern of repeated and unwanted attention, contact, harassment, or any other course of conduct targeted toward a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear. Before the Internet, stalkers were...
Keeping up with Internet laws in Wisconsin
As the Internet changes and develops, so do the laws and crimes that are associated with it. To some degree, this just means that crimes that have existed for a long time move over into the realm of Internet crime. For example, it was possible to steal someone's...
What is copyright infringement?
A copyright is a legal right that provides protection to artists who create original works of authorship. An authorship is defined as anything that is considered literary, artistic, musical or dramatic. Copyright protection applies to both an artist's published and...
Wisconsin bus driver faces child porn charges
A 53-year-old school bus driver from West Allis, Wisconsin, has been charged with two counts of possession of underage pornography. The charges against the man stemmed from an incident in which special agents with the Wisconsin Department of Justice allegedly...
3 computer crimes you may not know about
Although computers have made a lot of our everyday tasks easier, they also bring their share of problems. Technology has advanced so quickly, it is sometimes hard to know where the line is between what is considered a non-criminal act on a computer and what actually...
3 common Internet crimes that could land you behind bars
Although some people may think they are unknown to the world as they sit in front of a computer locked away in their very own home, they are often not as anonymous as they may think. Here are three Internet crimes that if committed, could get you into some serious...
Wisconsin man arrested after posing as woman on Craigslist
A 19-year-old Madison man has been released on $2,500 bail after allegedly threatening to post intimate photos of a woman on the Internet unless she agreed to perform a sex act on him. Although police have yet to officially charge the man with a crime, he was booked...
77-year-old Wisconsin man receives 5 years in child porn case
A retired instructional program manager from the University of Wisconsin Extension is facing five years in prison for sexual exploitation of a child along with concurrent five-year sentences for possession of underage pornography. He was sentenced in court on May 12....
Wisconsin man arrested after alleged Craigslist ad for teen sex
A 51-year-old Dane County man has been charged with attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child and using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime. The charges stemmed from an April 18 incident in which the man traveled to a residence in Racine County to...