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From:           	"Caspar Bowden" <cb@fipr.org>
Subject:        	FIPR-Bulletin: G8 Interior Ministers call for rollback of data protection laws & blanket traffic da
Date sent:      	Thu, 16 May 2002 11:39:53 +0100

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The G8 Justice and Interior Ministers meeting (Canada May 13-14) have
issued a number of documents relating to data protection and retention
of Internet traffic data (http://www.g8j-i.ca/english/pubs.html)

The issue is whether blanket retention of traffic data on the entire
population should be permitted (effectively making every Internet user
susceptible to continuous surveillance of their online activity), or
whether data should only be recorded on specifically designated
targets or groups. Although the G8 refers to Sep 11 and terrorism as
justification, there is no proposal to limit the use of data to
terrorist cases.

It contains the following statement which parallels the current
controversy on the new EU Communications Privacy Directive
(http://www.statewatch.org/news/2002/may/05surv.htm). 

"...To the extent that data protection legislation continues to permit
the retention of data only for billing purposes, such a position would
overlook crucial legitimate societal interests - particularly when
applied to the Internet service provider area, where flat rate pricing
and free Internet and E-mail services foreclose the need to retain
traffic data for billing purposes - and thereby seriously hamper
public safety. The G8 also believes that when data protection
legislation allows specific derogation to the general regime on
specific grounds, this should not be the exclusive means for
recognizing these other interests, since the default rule would
continue to require destruction."
http://www.g8j-i.ca/english/doc5.html

There is also a schedule of the types of traffic data that may be of
interest http://www.g8j-i.ca/english/doc3.html

A call for governments to permit blanket traffic data retention,
roughly corresponding to the CoE Cybercrime treaty
http://www.g8j-i.ca/english/doc3.html

A checklist of legal issues
http://www.g8j-i.ca/english/doc3.html

[FIPR's position paper on data retention can be found at
http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/]

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Caspar Bowden 
Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
Tel: +44(0)20 7354 2333                 www.fipr.org


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