[Ecommerce] [Fwd: FC: Council of Europe treaty may not include privacy protections]

[Marc Rotenberg]

The Global Internet Liberty Campaign <www.gilc.org>
has issued two letters on the COE CyberCrime proposal.

	GILC Members Maintain Opposition to Cyber-Crime Treaty.
	Responding to the latest version of the Council of Europe's
	Convention on Cyber-Crime, twenty-one GILC member
	organizations have drafted a new letter arguing that the
	treaty's current provisions will continue to violate the
	rights of Internet users. The letter from the groups also
	points out the lack of public input in the drafting process.
	http://www.gilc.org/privacy/coe-letter-1200.html

Marc.


At 2:08 PM -0500 12/15/00, James Love wrote:
>Who knows more about this particular issue?
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: FC: Council of Europe treaty may not include privacy
>protections
>Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 08:51:44 -0500
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>Reply-To: declan@well.com
>To: politech@politechbot.com
>
>
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40576,00.html
>
>    Privacy a Likely Loser in Treaty
>    by Declan McCullagh and Nicholas Morehead
>    3:20 p.m. Dec. 7, 2000 PST
>
>    WASHINGTON -- A controversial cybercrime treaty supported by the
>    Clinton administration likely will not be amended to include privacy
>    protections, a key European official said on Thursday.
>
>    "We cannot find an acceptable international standard in terms of
>    privacy as it applies to this treaty," said Henrik Kaspersen of the
>    Council of Europe, which expects to finalize the document this
>    month.
>
>    "We don't want to exclude privacy. We very much want to include it,"
>    said Kaspersen, chairman of the council's committee of cybercrime
>    experts. "But there are a number of existing case laws dealing with
>    privacy throughout Europe, and we're also dealing with countries
>    like the United States and Japan that have differing legal systems."
>
>    The treaty, which is being circulated among more than 40 nations, is
>    designed to aid police investigations by requiring websites and
>    Internet service providers to collect and record information about
>    their users, a move privacy groups insist goes too far. It could
>    also make it illegal to distribute some kinds of security products
>    used by system administrators to secure their networks against
>    intruders.
>
>    Kaspersen's remarks came at an event highlighting the release of a
>    report by McConnell International, a Washington policy consultancy
>    founded by Bruce McConnell, a White House aide under Presidents
>    George Bush and Bill Clinton.
>
>    [...]
>
>
>
>
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