IP: Europe's Police to spy on all emails

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 16:47:38 +0200
To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: Europe's Police to spy on all emails

Police to spy on all emails

Fury over Europe's secret plan to access computer and phone data

Kamal Ahmed, political editor
Sunday June 9, 2002
The Observer

Millions of personal emails, other internet information and telephone
records are to be made accessible to the police and intelligence services in
a move that has been denounced by critics as one of the most wide-ranging
extensions of state power over private information.

Plans being drawn up by Europol, the police and intelligence arm of the
European Union, propose that telephone and internet firms retain millions of
pieces of data - including details of visits to internet chat rooms, and of
calls made on mobile phones and text messages.

In a move that has been condemned by privacy campaigners, a draft document
passed to The Observer reveals that the EU is now drawing up a 'common code'
on data retention which will be applicable in all member states.

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http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,730091,00.html

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