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Re: [FYI] UK Cabinet Office Task Force on Encryption and Law Enforce
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- Subject: Re: [FYI] UK Cabinet Office Task Force on Encryption and Law Enforce
- From: Rigo Wenning <rigo@fitug.de>
- Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 14:13:47 +0200
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- In-Reply-To: <m10mcGb-0003WSC@fwd13.btx.dtag.de>; from Axel H. Horns on Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:56:28PM +0100
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Caspar Bowden nimmt an unserem GILC-Europe Experiment
teil, so daß zu hoffen ist, daß generell bei dieser
Neuorientierung der Abhörpraxis unabhängige Vereine
einbezogen werden. Das ist genau die Forderung von FITUG
aus der Echelon-Presseerklärung... Das Feld wird
zunehmend europäisch, die NGO's auch.. :-)
Gruss
Rigo
* Axel H. Horns (Horns@t-online.de) [990527 11:55]:
> http://jya.com/uk-crypto-le.htm
> Caspar Bowden, director of the Foundation for Information Policy
> Research (www.fipr.org) agreed with the report's conclusion that "key
>
> Bowden said "it is a very thorough analysis, which clearly
> demonstrates why public-key cryptography requires a new approach to
> interception and law enforcement. The joint Government and Industry
> forum should be balanced by independent civil liberties
> representatives, to consider how new Internet policing methods may
> require new forms of oversight and safeguards. For example, putting
> the onus on a person to prove that they DO NOT possess a decryption
> key could lead to miscarriages of justice."
>