any reactions? some of my newspaper colleagues are thinking of writing about this...
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 14:12:45 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu Subject: FC: EU eavesdropping on Iridium satellite phone system X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: owner-politech@vorlon.mit.edu Reply-To: declan@well.com X-Loop: politech@vorlon.mit.edu X-URL: Politech is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:08:00 +0100 From: Erich Moechel <erich-moechel@quintessenz.at> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, declan@well.com Subject: EU eavesdropping on Iridium System
It is really a ghastly paper, we obtained. It is the first ever "Enfopol" paper that leaked out from United European Police Working Group. Not even the EU's STOA-commission that brought Echelon in2 EU- Parliament this spring was given the predecessor 2 "Enfopol 98" cu me
The European Surveillance Union
Erich Moechel 20.11.98
Europol Seeks a Broad Structure for Tapping Mobile Communications
Austrian officials' appetite for coldly broadening their authority to monitor private citizens is in no way a unique case in Europe.
As a Europol internal document obtained by Telepolis shows, massive attempts on the part of European police forces are underway to acquire the ability to eavesdrop on the Iridium system, currently in a sensitive stage of expansion.
The document entitled "Enfopol 98" from the group "Police Cooperation" dated September 3, 1998, deals with the "observation of telecommunications" and primarily addresses the so-called satellite-supported personal communication systems (S-PCS), but also the Internet. On the recommendation of the European Union, a list of points desired by the European police was drawn up as a "Draft for a Recommended Resolution" in order to simplify the passage of the resolution. The terrestrial gateway stations are to provide comprehensive access via Iridium and other Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) since they are "collective and simple locations for monitoring solutions."
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