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. To: declan@well.com 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 -- pgp-Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE386BAA1 -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]