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Date: 1999-04-07
CFP99 Kongress: ENFOPOL a gogo-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Interesse beim Publikum. Neben dem Kongressabgeordneten BOB Barr und Stuart Charney [Us Justizministerium] sassen dort nämlich vier Europäer [UK, Frankreich, Russland, Österreich] und teilten den jeweils letzten Stand in Sachen fortschreitender Lauschangriff in den genannten Ländern mit. Die Informations/Puzzle/teile ergaben in der Zusammenschau ein durchaus grausliches Bild vom alten Kontinent. post/scrypt: update kommt bevor es Nacht wird in Europa. http://www.cfp99.org -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Robert MacMillan WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A. ... A variety of international speakers at today's panel spoke of the threat to freedom of privacy in daily lives and communications not only through Echelon, a satellite-based UK/US-stewarded spy network, but the proposed Enfopol system. Enfopol is a purported FBI/European Union-led initiative to conduct surveillance on phone conversations and Internet access. Most of the participants in today's session railed against the possibility that any communications all over the world easily could be intercepted because of Enfopol. Steven Wright of the UK's Omega Foundation said these spy networks are not just used to halt criminal activity, but to keep watch on groups like Amnesty International and to look over the shoulder of business deals. "It's a transatlantic agenda for making the telephone system transparent," Wright said. He added that now-former European Commissioner Martin Bangemann told the EU's European Parliament that he had no knowledge of Echelon. .... Barr said many members in Congress need to be prodded into addressing the illegal use of wiretapping in the name of national security because the issue currently is not a "headline-grabber." "It's going to take hitting these issues any way you can, over and over and over again... so they cannot be ignored," Barr said. "It will require even more than legislation... it will require oversight." Barr also said that the issue of protecting US citizens' privacy rights must not degenerate into partisan issues, saying that proponents of increased wiretapping capabilities (such as the FBI with Enfopol and its CALEA proposals) will try to introduce partisan splits into Congress to try to take away from initiatives to preserve personal freedoms. Erich Moechel, an Austrian journalist following the Enfopol developments, said that his country already is laying the groundwork for allowing Enfopol to thrive, having recently given conditional approval to a law that allows wiretapping without court orders. ... Scott Charney of the US Justice Department said that the US does not conduct surveillance activities for no reason, adding that he doubted that a huge majority of phone calls all over the world are being tapped. "I don't know who you would find to process that information," he said. "We do indict people for illegal wiretapping." He added, however, that the increasing globalization of information makes law enforcement's job difficult because it "still recognizes borders." .... Charney added that approximately 1,000 wiretaps on the combined federal, state and local levels are conducted each year in the US. full text http://www.cnnfn.com/digitaljam/newsbytes/128893.html -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- --.- -.-. --.- q/depesche taeglich ueber internationale hacks--.-zensur im netz crypto--.-IT mergers--.-monopole & die universalitaet digitaler dummheit subscribe http://www.quintessenz.at -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- --.- -.-. --.- Certified PGP key https://keyserver.ad.or.at/cgi-bin/key/Search?keyid=AC922C4D -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- --.- -.-. --.- erich-moechel.com/munications ++43 2266 687201 fon ++43 2266 687204 fax -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1999-04-07 comments to [email protected] subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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