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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Council of Europe treaty may not include privacy pro
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- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 20:06:50 +0100
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: Council of Europe treaty may not include privacy protections
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40576,00.html
Privacy a Likely Loser in Treaty
by Declan McCullagh and Nicholas Morehead
3:20 p.m. Dec. 7, 2000 PST
WASHINGTON -- A controversial cybercrime treaty supported by the
Clinton administration likely will not be amended to include
privacy protections, a key European official said on Thursday.
"We cannot find an acceptable international standard in terms of
privacy as it applies to this treaty," said Henrik Kaspersen of
the Council of Europe, which expects to finalize the document this
month.
"We don't want to exclude privacy. We very much want to include
it," said Kaspersen, chairman of the council's committee of
cybercrime experts. "But there are a number of existing case laws
dealing with privacy throughout Europe, and we're also dealing
with countries like the United States and Japan that have
differing legal systems."
The treaty, which is being circulated among more than 40 nations,
is designed to aid police investigations by requiring websites and
Internet service providers to collect and record information about
their users, a move privacy groups insist goes too far. It could
also make it illegal to distribute some kinds of security products
used by system administrators to secure their networks against
intruders.
Kaspersen's remarks came at an event highlighting the release of a
report by McConnell International, a Washington policy consultancy
founded by Bruce McConnell, a White House aide under Presidents
George Bush and Bill Clinton.
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