[ga] Re: [Politech] Update from Europe on data retention: What's happening now [priv]

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Declan and all,

  Interesting, and thank you Declan.

Declan McCullagh wrote:

> Previous Politech message:
> http://www.politechbot.com/2007/01/24/not-just-isps/
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Data retention in Europe
> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:56:14 +0100
> From: Erich M. <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: declan@xxxxxxxx
>
> Declan,
>
> Concerning your posting on the upcoming data retention laws in the US
> here is some news on the same topiq all over europe that might be of
> interest. [pls see links to the doqumentation below]
>
> By 2007/08 the new EU "directive on the retention of data ... in ...
> publicly available electronic communications services or of public
> communications networks"  requires all EU countries to turn their
> existing data protection laws upside down.
>
> Traffic data [who calls whom when where / who uses which IP address when
> etc.] currently have to be deleted when no longer needed for technical
> and billing purposes by the network operator. That is the gist of all
> current data protection laws all over Europe: storage of communications
> traffic data without the citizen's consent is until now explicitly
> forbidden.
>
> The data retention directive says: A large amount of traffic data from
> telephone networks and the internet must be stored by network operators
> now for a period of up to two years.The timing depends on national
> decision. England, France, Ireland, Poland and Sweden have all in all
> shown their least respect to privacy and the rights of the individual
> being.
>
> Interestingly the EU hardliners are a mix of social-democrat and
> conservative governments. A meeting of authoritarian and populist
> politicians  from both sides of the spectrum ...
>
> In some EU countries with strong data protection laws like Germany there
> has been fierce and ongoing opposition. Chambers of commerce, ISPAs and
> About 10.000 people already have signed in to challenge the upcoming
> German data retention law for violating the German constitution. The
> Austrian government is neither in favour of changing core data
> protection laws that have been enacted only a few years ago.
>
> quintessenz has doqumented how this dangerous and much debated directive
> was rushed through various bodies of the EU. The roots of this directive
> can be traced back to the "Convention on Cybercrime by the Council of
> Europe [COE] and to the G/7 summits of the late nineties.
>
> EU Data Retention - doqumentation, news and links
>
> http://quintessenz.org/d/000100002986
>
> Key doquments on "the making of" data retention 1997 - 2006
>
> http://quintessenz.org/cgi-bin/index?funktion=links&id=000100002986&type=file
>
> cu
> Erich
>
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