EU communications surveillance?

Leung, H Curtiss [IT] h.curtiss.leung at ssmb.com
Wed May 30 07:52:21 PDT 2001


(Apologies if this has been posted already--I'm *waaay* behind)


>From comp.risks, 21.43:


> Civil liberties publication Statewatch claims to have obtained leaked
> documents from the Council of the European Union (the 15 EU governments),
> which recommend the long-term retention of "every phone call, every mobile
> phone call, every fax, every e-mail, every website's contents, all
internet
> usage, from anywhere, by everyone, to be recorded, archived and be
> accessible for at least seven years."

See http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.43.html#subj5 for the risks article, and http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/may/03Benfopol.htm for a complete treatment. -- Curtiss



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