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 Wie gut, dass es die Briten gibt, denn nirgendwo anders
 äußern die Geheimdienste ihr Bestreben, die gesamte
 Kommunikation der Gesellschaft in die Hände zu kriegen.
 GSM und Internet Provider, Telekoms et al sollen gezwungen
 werden, die gesamten, in ihren Netzen angefallenen
 Verbindungsdaten [Logfiles & c] ein Jahr lang selbst zu
 hosten. Für die nächsten sechs Jahre sollen die kompletten
 Verbindungsdaten dann den Nachrichtendiensten ausgeliefert
 werden zum Zweck des Dataminings.
 
 Es geht um die Erstellung von Kommunikations- und
 Bewegungsprofilen und nicht - wie der Observer meint - um
 Inhalte der Kommunikation.
 
 Wer sollte dieses Papier anders hosten als der
 unverzichtbare John Young?
 
 http://cryptome.org/ncis-carnivore.htm
 
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 Titelstory des Observer heute
 
 Secret plan to spy on all British phone calls
 
 Kamal Ahmed, political editor Sunday December 3, 2000
 
 Britain's intelligence services are seeking powers to seize all
 records of telephone calls, emails and internet connections
 made by every person living in this country.
 
 A document circulated to Home Office officials and obtained
 by The Observer reveals that MI5, MI6 and the police are
 demanding new legislation to log every phone call made in
 this country and store the information for seven years at a
 vast government-run 'data warehouse', a super computer that
 will hold the information.
 
 The secret moves, which will cost millions of pounds, were
 last night condemned by politicians and campaigners as a
 sinister expansion of 'Big Brother' state powers and a
 fundamental attack on the public's right to privacy.
 
 Last night, the Home Office admitted that it was giving the
 plans serious consideration.
 
 Lord Cope, the Conservative peer and a leading expert on
 privacy issues, said: 'We are sympathetic to the need for
 greater powers to fight modern types of crime. But vast
 banks of information on every member of the public can
 quickly slip into the world of Big Brother. I will be asking
 serious questions about this.' Maurice Frankel, a leading
 campaigner on per sonal data issues, called the powers
 'sweeping' and a cause for worry.
 
 The document, which is classified 'restricted', says new laws
 are needed to allow the intelligence services, Customs and
 Excise and the police access to telephone and computer
 records of every member of the public.
 
 It suggests that the Home Office is sympathetic to the new
 powers, which would be used to tackle the growing problems
 of cybercrime, the use of computers by paedophiles to run
 child pornography rings, as well as terrorism and international
 drug trafficking.
 
 Every telephone call made and received by a member of the
 public, all emails sent and received and every web page
 looked at would be recorded.
 
 Calls made on mobile phones can already be pinpointed
 geographically, as can those made from land lines. The
 police would be able to use 'trawling' computer techniques to
 look through millions of telephone and email records.
 Campaigners say innocent people could have such highly
 personal information accessed.
 
 The document admits the moves are controversial and could
 clash with the Human Rights Act, which gives people a right
 to privacy, European Union law and the Data Protection Act,
 which protects the public against official intrusion into private
 lives.
 
 The office of the Data Protection Commissioner, Elizabeth
 France, has already expressed 'grave concerns' .
 
 'A clear legislative framework needs to be agreed as a matter
 of urgency,' says the document, which is dated 10 August
 and is thought to have been sent to Home Office Minister
 Charles Clarke.
 
 'Why should data be retained? In the interests of justice, to
 preserve and protect data for use as evidence to establish
 proof of innocence or guilt. For intelligence and evidence
 gathering purposes, to maintain the effectiveness of UK law
 enforcement, intelligence and security agencies to protect
 society.'
 
 The document is written by Roger Gaspar, the deputy
 director-general of the National Criminal Intelligence Service,
 the Government agency that oversees criminal intelligence in
 the United Kingdom. Gaspar, as head of intelligence for
 NCIS, is one of the most powerful and influential men in the
 field.
 
 The report says it is written 'on behalf of Acpo [the
 Association of Chief Police Officers], HM Customs and
 Excise, security service, secret intelligence service and
 GCHQ [the Government's secret listening centre based at
 Cheltenham]'.
 
 Gaspar argues telephone companies should be ordered to
 retain all records of phone calls and internet access.
 
 At the moment many telephone and internet service providers
 keep data for as little as 24 hours.
 
 'In the interests of verifying the accuracy of data specifically
 provided for either intelligence or evidential purposes, CSPs
 [communication service providers such as telephone or
 internet companies] should be under an obligation to retain
 the original data supplied for a period of seven years or for as
 long as the prosecuting authority directs,' the document
 says.
 
 'Informal discussions have taken place with the office of the
 data protection commissioner. Whilst they acknowledge that
 such communications data may be of value to the work of the
 agencies and the interests of justice they have grave
 reservations about longer term data retention.' The document
 says the new data warehouse would be run along similar
 lines to the National DNA Database for profiles of known
 criminals.
 ....
 
 A spokesman for NCIS refused to be drawn on the report. 'I
 am not going to comment on a classified document that is in
 unauthorised hands,' he said.
 
 Meanwhile a Home Office spokesman said it had received
 the proposals and was considering them.
 
 More
 http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,406191,00.h
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 24 11 2000 Technisches Museum Wien
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