FC: European Parliament rejects police Net-surveillance plan

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/0907/hom17.htm
Parliament rejects use of personal communications
2001-09-07 02:10:13
By Joe Humphreys

The European Parliament has rejected an EU directive
which would have allowed law enforcement agencies in Ireland and other
member-states to retain personal communications information. Welcoming
yesterday's decision, Green Party MEP Ms Patricia McKenna said it was
"a victory for the protection of civil liberties and the right to
privacy". She said the directive would have opened the door to
widespread abuses by allowing state agencies retain and store personal
telecommunications details for up to seven years "under the pretence
of fighting crime". Under the directive, law-enforcement agencies
would not have been allowed to access the content of communications
without a warrant. They would, however, have been able to access
private email and website addresses; the location of Internet
newsgroups accessed, and the times and duration of land and mobile
phone calls.

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