Hope you will find this interesting. Enjoy ! Greetings, Barry. >Making up the rules: interception versus privacy. >A dossier on digital wiretapping. > > >The Dutch organizations Buro Jansen & Janssen and Eurowatch >present their online dossier on digital wiretapping, >focussing especially on developments in Europe and the >Netherlands. > >Cyber crime, cyber terrorism and cyber warfare. These are >three keywords in an ongoing effort of governments worldwide >to enhance their digital wiretapping capabilities and >counter the use of cryptography. "Making up the rules: >interception versus privacy" discusses the efforts of the >Council of Europe and the European Ministers of Justice and >Home Affairs to harmonize their capabilities to wiretap the >internet and facilitate cross-border law enforcement >activities in Europe. > >The dossier covers issues like Echelon, law enforcement >internet tapping, cryptography, Enfopol and the cyber crime >treaty. The privacy of internet users is the price >governments are willing to pay in an ongoing battle to make >the internet ready for large-scale tapping. > >The dossier gives special attention to developments in The >Netherlands, as it is the western country with the largest >amount of taps per year according to a Dutch ministry of >Justice report. In the march 2000 the Dutch national police >division (KLPD) opened Europe's largest tapping facility >capable of operating a 1000 simultaneous taps ranging from >standard telephone lines to mobile telephony and the latest >ICT technologies such as internet. > >"Making up the rules: interception versus privacy" can be >found at: > >http://www.xs4all.nl/~respub/crypto/english/ > >The dossier was made on the initiative of Bits of Freedom, a >Dutch privacy and civil rights organization.
