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------- Forwarded message follows ------- To: <bulletin@admin.fipr.org>(FIPR Bulletin) From: "Caspar Bowden" <cb@fipr.org> Subject: FIPR-Bulletin: G8 Interior Ministers call for rollback of data protection laws & blanket traffic da Date sent: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:39:53 +0100

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The G8 Justice and Interior Ministers meeting (Canada May 13-14) have issued a number of documents relating to data protection and retention of Internet traffic data (http://www.g8j-i.ca/english/pubs.html)

The issue is whether blanket retention of traffic data on the entire population should be permitted (effectively making every Internet user susceptible to continuous surveillance of their online activity), or whether data should only be recorded on specifically designated targets or groups. Although the G8 refers to Sep 11 and terrorism as justification, there is no proposal to limit the use of data to terrorist cases.

It contains the following statement which parallels the current controversy on the new EU Communications Privacy Directive (http://www.statewatch.org/news/2002/may/05surv.htm).

"...To the extent that data protection legislation continues to permit the retention of data only for billing purposes, such a position would overlook crucial legitimate societal interests - particularly when applied to the Internet service provider area, where flat rate pricing and free Internet and E-mail services foreclose the need to retain traffic data for billing purposes - and thereby seriously hamper public safety. The G8 also believes that when data protection legislation allows specific derogation to the general regime on specific grounds, this should not be the exclusive means for recognizing these other interests, since the default rule would continue to require destruction." http://www.g8j-i.ca/english/doc5.html

There is also a schedule of the types of traffic data that may be of interest http://www.g8j-i.ca/english/doc3.html

A call for governments to permit blanket traffic data retention, roughly corresponding to the CoE Cybercrime treaty http://www.g8j-i.ca/english/doc3.html

A checklist of legal issues http://www.g8j-i.ca/english/doc3.html

[FIPR's position paper on data retention can be found at http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/]

-- Caspar Bowden Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research Tel: +44(0)20 7354 2333 www.fipr.org

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