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Date: 1999-04-08
Near-on Live: CFP99 Update, news.com Story-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- der wenig angenehmeren Zeugen für letztere, am Podium, jetzt sitzt ACLU-Präsdentin Nadine Stroessen dort. 17.45 Ortszeit. Hurry off to the Closing Panel. Mehr folgt im Lauf der Nacht. http://www.cfp99.org Angehängt: Die news.com story über den Auftritt der Europäer gegen den Überwachungstaat, dem Panel, das erstunlicherweise medial die höchsten Wellen geschlagen hat . -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Courtney Macavinta April 7, 1999, 4:00 a.m. PT WASHINGTON--The message at this year's Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference has a familiar Orwellian ring: Civil rights should be strengthened because digital technology sharpens that "big eye in the sky." ... At the ninth annual conference's kickoff, panelists feverishly pointed to evidence about international governments building widespread surveillance systems for email, phone, and wireless communication, while noting that many regimes, including the United States, refuse to lift controls on the data-security technologies based on encryption. .... On closely watched session yesterday, the "Creation of a Global Surveillance Network" focused on what many would call a privacy nightmare. Examining policies in the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and Austria, as well as the European Union, panelists discussed the trend toward unethical cooperation among governments. The panel also focused on the EU and FBI's so-called Enfopol network, which could allegedly force telephone and Internet service providers to build "tappable" networks, according to a January report delivered to the Scientific and Technical Options Assessment Panel of the European Parliament. .... "We worried that this system was being tied to other systems," said Steve Wright, of the nonprofit Omega Foundation, who wrote the report. .... "If every phone call on the planet is being listened to, that is wrong," said Scott Charney, head of the Justice Department's Computer Crime Unit. "You have to establish the practices that govern the surveillance and have internal and external reviews." Fears about increased surveillance come at a time when a conflict is simmering between the European Union and United States over the EU's strict privacy directive. .... Overall, pressure is building to more adequately balance corporate and individual interests when it comes to collecting and storing personal data, which many at CFP say is prime currency in the digital age. ... "It is indeed not natural resources, geography, or capital that is the most precious commodity--it's information," said Rep. Bob Barr (R- Georgia). "It will require more than legislation--it will require oversight," added Barr, who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, which has called for Net privacy hearings. Some countries are rejecting self-regulatory models in favor of government supervision. Stephen Lau, the privacy commissioner for personal data in Hong Kong, says China is "one country with two systems" and leads an independent agency that is implementing policies based on OECD principles. Last year his staff conducted a sample study based on the country's approximately 7,000 Web sites and found that only 6 percent were in compliance with OECD-based guidelines, such as disclosing what is done with data that is collected from consumers. .... full text http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,34750,00.html -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1999-04-08 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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