[But wait... I thought the European Commission's approach to privacy was inherently superior to the American approach? Even in the aftermath of 9-11, I don't recall this idea being seriously proposed here... --Declan] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Signatures against Data Retention Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:50:24 +0200 From: Twister (Bettina Winsemann) <twister@private> Organization: STOP1984 To: declan@private CC: dave@private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Sorry for posting this to the moderators of two lists. I have, to make it transparent, not used the bcc-function. If you onsider it as some kind of "spam" please accept my appologies. Civil Rights Organisations call for signatures against mandatory Data Retention I think it is a very important matter and though it sounds like "only European" I am personally the opinion that it is a matter which should not be considered a European one as the mandatory retention of telecommunication data involves anyone who has contact to someone who is within the reach of this law. Any mail coming to me would be within the reach of this data retention scheme so that though the sender are in the USA or wherever they "are" involved. Therefore I would be pleased if any organisation would endorse this statement against a mandatory Data Retention in Europe. (Signees can only be organisations or companies...) and if you could pass this on on your lists. Thanks Twister http://www.edri.org/cgi-bin/index?id=000100000162 Urgent call to sign-on to answer to data retention Privacy International [PI] and European Digital Rights [EDRI] have published their joint answer to the consultation on mandatory data retention. The Directorate Generals on Information Society and on Justice and Home Affairs from the European Commission asked for public comments on a proposed retention regime across Europe between 12 and 36 months for all traffic data generated by using fixed and mobile telephony and Internet. The deadline for comments expires on 15 September 2004. PI and the 15 member organisations of EDRI call on all organisations to sign on to this answer! The EU plans the wide-spread retention of personal data resulting from communications, or so-called traffic data. We argue that any such retention is necessarily a hazardously invasive act. With the progress of technology, this data is well beyond being simple logs of who we've called and when we called them. Traffic data can now be used to create a map of human associations and more importantly, a map of human activity and intention. As technologies become more invasive, and as laws are increasingly reluctant to protect individual rights, the European Union should be fulfilling its role to uphold the rights of individuals. Data retention is an invasive and illegal practice with illusory benefits. We invite any other organisations to endorse the response, which can be found at http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/terrorism/rpt/responsetoretention.html . Please sign on ASAP but not later than 15.09.2004, 10:00 AM. As much as we appreciate individual support, only organisations are invited to endorse this answer. Due to a number of reasons (privacy-wise and administrative) we cannot process individual signatures, and will only publish names of organisations with their main URLs. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBRIxgH/qwWftpK70RAlvVAJwJDof/3PhWhC7xfFgPctbB8gWhjgCg4ZJ9 XZtH9qetfX4Gw5R5noSu3/E= =equ6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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