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[FYI] (Fwd) Re: Follow-up on COE letter




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Date sent:      	Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:46:43 -0400
From:           	Marc Rotenberg <rotenberg@epic.org>
Subject:        	Re: Follow-up on COE letter
To:             	gilc-plan@gilc.org
Send reply to:  	gilc-plan@gilc.org


Meryem -

Other news articles on the COE Letter:

 http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/41/ns-18546.html
 Computer crime treaty threatens human rights
 Thu, 19 Oct 2000 07:41:55 GMT
 ZDNet UK News

 http://www.idg.net/ic_273062_1794_9-10000.html
 Human Rights Groups Slam CyberCrime Pact
 18 Oct 2000
 IDG News Service/ Berlin Bureau

 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39519,00.html
 Police Treaty a Global Invasion?
 Oct. 17, 2000
 Wired News

 http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2642290,00.html?chkpt=z
 dhpnews01 Coalition Slams Cybercrime Treaty Oct 18, 2000 ZDNet News

 http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/156854.html
 GILC Urge Europe Over Cybercrime Treaty
 18 October 2000
 Newsbytes

We will post links and descriptions on the GILC site.

I don't see a problem with adding non-GILC members.
The letter is from "a wide range of civil society
organizations from around the world."

Does anyone object?

Marc.



At 3:26 PM +0200 10/19/00, Meryem Marzouki wrote:
>Dear GILCers,
>
>I have two questions regarding possible follow-up to the letter :
>
>1/Are there any link on GILC site to press articles about the letter
>? I'm thinking of putting such a collection of links on our site, so
>I would be interested in gathering the following information :
>
>media name, article title, language, URL
>Here is one to start :
>
>Libération, "Pas touche ŕ mon disque dur! Des associations dénoncent
>ce texte qui donne trop de pouvoirs ŕ la police.", French,
>http://www.libe.fr/multi/pirates/20001019jeuzg.html
>
>The title more or less translates as : "put your hands off my hard
>disk! NGOs oppose this text [the convention draft] which gives too
>much power to the police".
>
>BTW, in this article, a French police officer is quoted, saying
>"[wiretapping] is a risk, to catch one person, we may have to wiretap
>one hundred people" (translation is mine, as you can understand :-)).
>I think this police officer got it...
>
>2/ Should we plan to open the letter to signatures from non GILC
>organizations ? We already have received signatures, without asking
>anything, and I'm wondering what will I do with them... (I hope there
>won't be any signatures from individuals :-)).
>
>--
>Meryem Marzouki - Pages personnelles : http://asim.lip6.fr/~marzouki
>IRIS - 294 rue de Charenton, 75012 Paris, France Tel/Fax:
>+33(0)144749239 - http://www.iris.sgdg.org




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