http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/0907/hom17.htm Parliament rejects use of personal communications 2001-09-07 02:10:13 By Joe Humphreys The European Parliament has rejected an EU directive which would have allowed law enforcement agencies in Ireland and other member-states to retain personal communications information. Welcoming yesterday's decision, Green Party MEP Ms Patricia McKenna said it was "a victory for the protection of civil liberties and the right to privacy". She said the directive would have opened the door to widespread abuses by allowing state agencies retain and store personal telecommunications details for up to seven years "under the pretence of fighting crime". Under the directive, law-enforcement agencies would not have been allowed to access the content of communications without a warrant. They would, however, have been able to access private email and website addresses; the location of Internet newsgroups accessed, and the times and duration of land and mobile phone calls. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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