Syndicate: e-c-b netnews

["Armin Medosch" <armin@easynet.co.uk>]

dear readers,

as some may have noticed, the ecb-website http://www.e-c-b.net/ 
together with the new medialounge.net was launched on 
17.06.2001. It will now regularly feature a news board  with different 
sections (net politics, collaborative tools, special events). The 
following story is the latest addition to the site


European Netpolitics
European Parlament shows electronic spies the 
red card
Wide-scale general or exploratory electronic 
surveillance to be prohibited

This week the draft directive on privacy in 
electronic communications was adopted in the 
commitee for citizens' freedoms and rights. It 
opposes the European Commission to the Council 
of Ministers 
with its inclusion of an amendment which Marco 
Cappato had tabled on behalf of the 
Radicals/Lista Bonino MEPs. Cappato, clearly 
delighted, said: 

"The Civil liberties committee expressed itself 
in favour of a strict regulation of law 
enforcement authorities' access to personal data 
of citizens, such as communication traffic and 
location data. This decision is fundamental 
because in this way the EP blocks EU States' 
efforts underway in the Council to put their 
citizens under generalised and pervasive 
surveillance, following the Echelon model."

full story
http://www.e-c-b.net/ecb/news/articles/994935864

Draft version of Cappato report
http://www.europarl.eu.int/meetdocs/committees/li
be/20010710/439506en.pdf

European Parliament
http://www.europarl.eu.int/


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