EU passes surveillance bill

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Tor Fosheim <tor () teknotum net>
Date: December 15, 2005 5:12:36 AM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: EU passes surveillance bill

Hiya,

It might interest you to know that the European Parliament just passed a
bill that requires electronic comunication providers to keep logs of  
almost
everything for up to two years.

That includes email, surfing, IM conversations, text messages and even
mobile phone conversations that never connected. The directive came  
about as
a result of the Madrid and London bombings (Britain holds the EU  
presidency
this period), and will have to be passed into law by the individual  
member
states within 2007.

From what I've read online, the directive doesn't require the actual
contents of conversations to be logged - only the time, duration and
location of them - and the police will need warrans to access the logs.

Here's the press release from Strasbourg:
http://www.europarl.eu.int/news/expert/infopress_page/ 
019-3536-348-12-50-902
-20051206IPR03225-14-12-2005-2005--false/default_en.htm

All the best from Oslo,

Tor Fosheim
http://teknotum.net



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