[Data retention of course means laws requiring Internet service
providers or telephone companies to record information on what their
customers are doing. Perhaps someone can remind us again how evil
corporations are endangering civil liberties and our privacy cannot be
trusted to the free market? (Obviously I'm joking. No CEO in his right
mind would go forward with this over the objections of customers. The
truth is that our privacy and civil liberties can't be trusted to
governments. It's just that getting rid of them is somewhat more
difficult.) --Declan]
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Subject: Politech submission
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:07:05 +0000 (UTC)
From: Anonymous Sender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/apr/02eu-data-retention.htm
EU: Data Retention proposal partly illegal, say Council and Commission
lawyers
The Legal Services of both the Council and Commission have argued that
the controversial proposal for a Framework Decision on the retention of
telephone and Internet data, proposed last April by the UK and several
other Member States, is partly illegal.
EU: The Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament has
rejected a proposal on the mandatory retention of data on all
telecommunications for the purposes of law enforcement (full-text of
adopted report,
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/may/ep-data-ret-alvaro-report.pdf)
Press release
(http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/may/ep-data-ret-alvaro-26-05-05.pdf)
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