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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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