[Ecommerce] [Fwd: FC: Council of Europe treaty may notinclude privacy protections]

[James Love]

What I was wondering also, did the "crimes" mentioned in the cyber-crime
treaty *not* include crimes against privacy, as Declan seemed to
suggest?

Jamie

Marc Rotenberg wrote:
> 
> 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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