Previous Politech messages: "E.U. votes on May 15 to log Internet, phone traffic for police" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03496.html "Europe set to nix Bush request, not require ISP data retention" http://www.politechbot.com/p-02789.html --- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 08:01:00 +0200 To: declanat_private From: Mikael Pawlo <mikaelat_private> Subject: GILC opposes EU anti-terrorist law Declan, http://stop1984.com/index2.php?text=letter.txt The Global Internet Liberty Campaign is going to send a letter to the European Parliament on May 22, opposing a proposed law to require phone companies and Internet service providers to store and keep traffic data for years in order to make it available to the authorities on request. 'Traffic data' means the records of who called whom, who sent email to whom and so forth. One may wonder if enough terrorists are stopped by this measure to justify the invasion of privacy. Further, it is a clear danger that dictarships would label the political opposition as terrorists. Regards Mikael _________________________________________________________________________ ICQ:35638414 mailto:mikaelat_private +46-704-215825 http://www.pawlo.com/ --- From: Twister <twisterat_private> To: declanat_private Subject: Open Letter against Data Collection Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 02:59:28 +0200 I thought this might be of interest to you: (I thought that you already know the part with the organisations but I was not sure if you knew about the part with the private persons) GILC is going to send a letter to the European Parliament on May 22nd, regarding the collection of telecommunication data. This is a letter to the EP objecting to an amendment permitting retention of Internet traffic data on the entire population. It would effectively make every Internet user susceptible to continuous surveillance of their online activity. Marc Rotenberg from GILC has asked organizations who want to take part respectively sign this letter to send him (rotenbergat_private) an e-mail with the following: - Name - Organization - Email address - Organization URL If private persons want to sign the letter they can do this on our page http://stop1984.com/index2.php?text=letter.txt (you also find the English original there as well as the German translation) As you can see we respect the privacy of each signee and do not publish any e-mail-address, we only have a counter on our page, telling you how many people have signed. Maybe this inititiative is something you could waste some space on your list for ; I thought (and this is what the whole stop1984-team thought) that it would be sad if only organisations could support this open letter. And I think that an impressive number of signees would help in addition to the organisations´ support. Sorry if this e-mail was embarassing. Kind regards Twister aka Tini Jodda ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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