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Politech archive: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=retention --- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:18:13 +0200 From: "Marco Cappato" <Mcappato@europarl.eu.int> Subject: PRESS RELEASE BY MARCO CAPPATO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_DA86F1BF.9CFC36A9" PRIVACY/EU: CAPPATO "ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL APPROVES TELECOM DATA RETENTION DIRECTIVE WITHOUT DISCUSSION - WE WILL DEBATE ABOUT IT ON THE 10TH OF JULY AT THE CONFERENCE ON DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM AND THE INTERNET" Brussels, 27 June 2002 Declaration by Marco Cappato MEP, former EP rapporteur on the directive on privacy in electronic communications: "I take note of the fact that the Environment Council of the 25th of June has approved almost unanimously - only Luxembourg voted against - and without any discussion the directive on privacy in electronic communications on which I have been EP rapporteur until the plenary vote that completely reversed the position the EP had taken until that moment. Environment Ministers probably do not know much about telecommunications, privacy, data retention and mass surveillance, and they are probably not even allowed to discuss about the contents of the directive and their effects on citizens' privacy. The opposition of 17 thousands people that signed against data retention on the site www.stop1984.com have not been considered, neither by the Council, nor by the majority of the European Parliament: it is now up to Member States to decide weather to introduce such measures, and our campaign to protect citizens' privacy against State intrusions will continue at the national level. In order to organise this opposition to such measures, the Radical MEPs along with the Transnational Radical Party and the Radicali Italiani will hold a conference titled "Democracy, freedom and the Internet" that will take place in the EP (room 5G3) on the 10th of July, from 9 am to 6 pm. The Conference will analyse the issues of privacy in the EU, data retention (Europol documents and the draft framework decision on data retention), cybercrime and e-democracy. MEPs and key actors from civil liberties groups will participate. The detailed programme will be released tomorrow and will be available from the site www.radicalparty.org ." For more information on the conference: Gianluca Eramo, Ottavio Marzocchi: 0032 2 2847496 mcappato@europarl.eu.int ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------