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------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Caspar Bowden" <cb@fipr.org> To: "Ukcrypto" <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Subject: Fwd: Release from Marco Cappato MEP on European Parliament view on general surveillance of electronic communications Date sent: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 23:29:30 +0100 Send reply to: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk

This is a Press Release on a European Parliament amendment condemning moves towards general surveillance of electronic communications. Forwarding to the RIPlist and ukcrypto for its obvious relevance to recent Council of Ministers pressure on Commission to abolish current prohibition on indiscriminate long-term retention of traffic data.

The excerpt is noteworthy : "the interception and storage of data concerning traffic and location in electronic communications are entirely exceptional measures which must be based on a specific law which is comprehensible to the general public, be authorised by the judicial or competent authorities, be of limited duration, and be proportionate and necessary within a democratic society; points out that, under the European Convention on Human Rights and pursuant to rulings issued by the Court of Human Rights, any form of wide-scale general or exploratory electronic surveillance is prohibited".

The URL given doesn't work, but this does http://www.europarl.eu.int/meetdocs/committees/libe/20010710/439506en. pd f -- Caspar Bowden Tel: +44(0)20 7354 2333 Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research RIP Information Centre at: www.fipr.org/rip#media

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marco Cappato [mailto:mcappato@europarl.eu.int]
>Sent: 06 July 2001 17:20
>To: Marco Cappato
>Subject: press release/communiqué de presse
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>Press release by Marco Cappato (MEP and EP draftsman on privacy in
>electronic communications) on the efforts by EU Member States to get
>wider powers in intruding in private life of citizens

PRIVACY/EP: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT POSITION AGAINST GENERAL SURVEILLANCE IS A GOOD NEWS IN THE VIEW OF THE VOTE ON THE PRIVACY DIRECTIVE THAT WILL TAKE PLACE NEXT WEDNESDAY IN BRUSSELS (Cappato report) Brussels, 6 July 2001

Declaration by Marco Cappato, Radical MEP of the Bonino List, EP draftsman on the draft directive on privacy in electronic communications:

"The adoption of a radical amendment that I had tabled on behalf of the Radicals/ Lista Bonino MEPs on the report on Human Rights in the European Union, the EP has assumed yesterday a clear political position on the issue of intrusions by States' repressive authorities in citizens' private life: "the interception and storage of data concerning traffic and location in electronic communications are entirely exceptional measures which must be based on a specific law which is comprehensible to the general public, be authorised by the judicial or competent authorities, be of limited duration, and be proportionate and necessary within a democratic society; points out that, under the European Convention on Human Rights and pursuant to rulings issued by the Court of Human Rights, any form of wide-scale general or exploratory electronic surveillance is prohibited".

The political orientation of the EP is extremely important in the view of the legislative decisions that are to be taken on the revision of the directive on privacy in electronic communications, that opposes the European Commission to the Council of Ministers. As draftsman of the EP on this directive, I express the hope that the EP will support my report when it will be voted in the committee for citizens' freedoms and rights next Wednesday in Brussels: The EP has to oppose to any effort by EU Member States to get wider powers in intruding in private life of citizens, derogating to minimal human rights and fundamental freedoms that are at the base of democracy and Rule of Law".

For further information: Marco Cappato's office: EP-Brussels, Tel 0032 2 2847496; Email: mcappato@europarl.eu.int Cappato draft report: http://www.europarl.ep.ec/meetdocs/committees/libe/20010710/439506en.p df ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------------------

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