[Data retention of course means laws requiring Internet service providers or telephone companies to record information on what their customers are doing. Perhaps someone can remind us again how evil corporations are endangering civil liberties and our privacy cannot be trusted to the free market? (Obviously I'm joking. No CEO in his right mind would go forward with this over the objections of customers. The truth is that our privacy and civil liberties can't be trusted to governments. It's just that getting rid of them is somewhat more difficult.) --Declan] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Politech submission Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:07:05 +0000 (UTC) From: Anonymous Sender <anonymous@private> To: declan@private http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/apr/02eu-data-retention.htm EU: Data Retention proposal partly illegal, say Council and Commission lawyers The Legal Services of both the Council and Commission have argued that the controversial proposal for a Framework Decision on the retention of telephone and Internet data, proposed last April by the UK and several other Member States, is partly illegal. EU: The Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament has rejected a proposal on the mandatory retention of data on all telecommunications for the purposes of law enforcement (full-text of adopted report, http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/may/ep-data-ret-alvaro-report.pdf) Press release (http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/may/ep-data-ret-alvaro-26-05-05.pdf) _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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