IP: Latest developments on international interception policy (fwd)

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: Duncan Campbell <duncan () gn apc org>
> Subject: Latest developments on international interception policy 
>
> THE ENFOPOL AFFAIR
>
> INTERNATION COLLABORATION ON TAPPING : THE HIDDEN HAND OF ILETS
>
> 30 APRIL 1999
>
>
> To : John Young (www.jya.com), uk-crypto, LACC, IP, others
>
>  From : Duncan Campbell    (mailto:iptv () cwcom net http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan)
>
> This note contains pointers to articles just published about the latest 
> developments in European Union communications interception policy, 
> including monitoring the Internet.  The most important article identifies a 
> hitherto unknown FBI-founded organisation called ILETS, which has met in 
> secret for 6 years, and which has - unknown until now - led initiatives 
> around the world to build comprehensive interception systems into new 
> telecommunications systems.
>
> The full story about ILETS is published this week in Telepolis, the 
> European on-line magazine, at:
> http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/enfo/6398/1.html
>
> And in German at:
> http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6396/1.html
>
> The news story is in English in the Guardian (UK) at:
> http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/The_Paper/Weekly/Story/0,3605,45981,00.html
>
> And also in Telepolis:
> http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/enfo/6397/1.html
>
> And in German at:
> http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6395/1.html
>
> The latter three reports describe how the latest version of the ENFOPOL 
> interception plan has just been leaked in London. It reveals that although 
> the name of the key document has been changed, European officials still 
> want to make tapping the Internet official European policy by the end of 
> May. They are pressing on, despite domestic opposition in Germany and 
> Austria and recent criticism by the European Parliament.
>
> The new document is called ENFOPOL 19. It was obtained this week by the 
> Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR).  (The name ENFOPOL (Law 
> ENFOrcement/POLice matters) is the generic title given to documents on 
> these subjects by the European Commission.)
>
> FIPR has put the ENFOPOL 19 document online at:
> http://www.fipr.org/polarch/index.html
>
> These articles bring up to date the story of secret co-operation on 
> interception between the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK (ie, 
> the UKUSA group), and the so-called "G5" group of EU nations (Germany, 
> France, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK).  Outside, the EU Norway and 
> Hong Kong are members of ILETS.    Within the EU, Austria, Belgium, 
> Luxembourg, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Eire, Denmark, Finland, Spain and 
> Portugal have participated in ILETS.
>
> This co-operation was first noticed in 1997, when the Statewatch group in 
> London found and publicised an EU resolution on interception that had been 
> adopted in January 1995, but which was not published until November 1996.
>
> Observers noted that the European 1995 policy bore an unmistakable 
> resemblance to US legislation, in particular the 1994 Communication 
> Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA).   Since then legislation passed 
> and/or proposed in Australia and other EU states has shown the same 
> similarities.
>
> The article about ILETS now reveals how this has happened, through a common 
> technical document called "IUR1.0" or "IUR95".
>
> An updated IUR, which made new demands for Internet interception, security 
> measures, automatic downloading of subscriber personal information (among 
> other measures) was drawn up in 1998.   In September 1998, it was presented 
> to the EU's Police Co-operation Working group as "ENFOPOL 98".
>
> In November 1998, the German on-line magazine Telepolis obtained and 
> published ENFOPOL 98.  The stories above describe how ENFOPOL 98 has 
> progressed since.
>
> The original ENFOPOL 98 story was reported in English in December 1998:
> http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/Enfopol_98_Obs.htm
>
> Telepolis has put the original (and scary) ENFOPOL 98 plan online at:
> http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6334/1.html
>
> And in German at:
> http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6326/1.html
>
> Erich Moechel and Armin Medosch have published English language accounts of 
> their scoop at:
> http://www.telepolis.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/1667/1.html
> http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6329/1.html
>
> The original scoop (in German) is at:
> http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/1663/1.html
>
>
> 1999 STOA REPORT ON GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS SURVEILLANCE AND ECHELON
>
> Further information about ILETS and communications interception will be 
> published in the near future by STOA, the Science and Technology Options 
> Assessment Office of the European Parliament.   This is contained in a 
> detailed report I have written for STOA, "Interception Capabilities 2000" 
> (IC2000).
>
> The full title of the IC2000 report is "The state of the art in 
> Communications intelligence (Comint) of automated processing for 
> intelligence purposes of intercepted broadband multi-language leased or 
> common carrier systems, and its applicability to Comint targeting and 
> selection, including speech recognition".    This is one of four reports
> commissioned by STOA, concerning "The development of surveillance 
> technology and risk of abuse of economic information".   The other three 
> studies cover legal, cryptographic and general issues.
>
> IC2000 provides a documentary account of new ECHELON sites, systems and 
> targets and an assessment of current Comint technology.
>
>
> RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
>
> * Further information would be welcome as to the extent to which the IUR 
> 1995 and 1998 "requirements" have progressed into law in individual member 
> or related countries.
>
> * Among the issues currently being discussed in the ILETS group is 
> cross-border interception arrangements and agreements; interception of 
> Iridium and other satellite-based personal communications (mobile radio) 
> systems.
>
>
> Duncan Campbell
> IPTV, Edinburgh
> iptv () cwcom net
> http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan