[FYI] (Fwd) FIPR-Bulletin: FW: Euro Parliament in favour of preventive spying - PressRelease from Ilka Schroede

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From: Ilka Schroeder [mailto:ischroeder@europarl.eu.int] 
Sent: 30 May 2002 12:44
To: Ilka Schroeder
Subject: Euro Parliament in favour of preventive spying - PressRelease
>from Ilka Schroeder


Euro Parliament in favour of preventive spying

Data collection in the EU — »Better than the Stasi «

Press release Nr. 02/2002, Brussels, May 30th, 2002

Today, the European Parliament voted in second reading on the EU
Directive concerning the Protection of Personal Data in Electronic
Communication (the Cappato report). On this occassion Ilka Schroeder,
Member of the European Parliament, shadow rapporteur of the United
European Left Group and draftsperson of the Industry Committe’s
opinion, declares:

With today’s vote the European Parliament supports the project of a
surveillance union. From today on, the fundamental right to privacy is
fundamentally questioned for everyone using electronic means of
communication — no matter whether they are telephone, Internet or fax.

The unlimited retention of communication data, as it is laid down in
Article 15.1 of the directive voted today, paves the way for unlimited
access to all kinds of personal communication.

Data retention means: Communication data will no longer be intercepted
exclusively at the time the communication takes place, but may be
analysed years later retro-spectively. This bears the danger of the
resorting to fundamental rights still in force today being sanctioned
in the future. Once the Le Pens, Haiders and Rasmussens will be in
power in the EU, they will be as happy on the comprehensive
information concerning their citizen’s communicational conduct as
today’s authoritarian-state oriented Labour- and Conservative-led
governments are.

Western democrats surpass the surveillance achievements of Eastern
Germany’s former Staatssicherheitsdienst by far.


Bureau Ilka Schroeder           
Parlement européen
Tel: +32 2 284 74 49              
GPG Fingerprint: 327F 22F7 6685 20B0 39C7 2762 95C7 A7E8 8B37 3F0A
Come to https://www.ilka.org


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