[FYI] (Fwd) 2nd STOA Rpt - Technologies of Political Control (fw

[Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)]

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Date:          Sun, 18 Oct 1998 11:25:37 -0400
To:            cryptography@c2.net
From:          Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Subject:       2nd STOA Rpt - Technologies of Political Control (fwd)


Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 11:26:38 +0200
To: jya@pipeline.com
From: Marie-Jose Klaver <klaver@nrc.nl>
Subject: Second report An Appraisal of Technologies of Political
Control

I'm a Dutch journalist, working for NRC Handelsblad, one of the major
newspapers in the Netherlands. I've been reporting about the STOA
report An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control since last
February.

A second report came out last month. I got a copy a few days ago from
the Omega Foundation and had an article about it in NRC Handelsblad
today. This second report has interesting information about the so
called EU-FBI global surveillance plan. According to a secret
memorandum the EU countries have agreed with the FBI to intercept all
European datacommunication. To do this some EU countries like Holland
and Germany changed their laws to make broad wiretapping and
interception of Internet and other datacommunication possible. Germany
changed its constitution in the beginning of this year and in Holland
a law was made and accepted by both chambers of the Parliament that
obliges all firms with computer and communication networks (providers,
telco's, newspapers etc.) to make their systems tappable.

You can read the second report at:

http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Echelon/stoa2sept1998.html


Marie-Jose Klaver

NRC Handelsblad

http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Echelon

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