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              | Date: 2001-09-28 
 
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 Natürlich ist auch einem so genannten Sozialdemokraten wie Herrn
 Jospin  nichts anderes eingefallen, als das Internet zu
 verdächtigen, es wäre zum Zwecke der Kommunikation unter
 Terroristen missbraucht worden. Wahrscheinlich haben die sogar -
 zu Hülf - hochgeheime Verschlüsselungsprogramme benützt, die
 es kaum irgendwo gibt.
 
 Oder es wurden verdächtig anonyme HiTechTelefonzellen einem
 kommunikativen Missbrauch zu Terrorz/wecken zugeführt.
 
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 Jospin Sees Need for More Cyber Snooping, But Also More
 Attention to Issues of Privacy Thursday, September 27, 2001 -
 reported by E-Commerce Daily, A BNA Monitoring Service
 
 PARIS--French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin closed an international
 meeting of privacy watchdogs Sept. 26 by urging governments to
 expand law enforcement's ability to eavesdrop in cyberspace, but
 also to take greater steps to ensure against violations of personal
 privacy.
 
 The emerging response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks--and its
 impacts on personal privacy--was the principal item of discussion
 throughout the Sept. 24-26 conference, attended by more than 500
 government and law enforcement officials, business leaders,
 privacy advocates and academics.
 
 Jospin's speech was in the mainstream of views offered by data
 commissioners. The French Prime Minister said that evidence the
 Internet had been used to plan the terrorist attacks justified the
 extension of surveillance powers. But he insisted that government
 create special oversight procedures as a "necessary counter-
 balance" to any new wiretap powers.
 
 Freedom vs. Security
 
 Similarly, Jospin admitted the inconsistencies posed by a
 liberalization of crytography for individual use and the recognition
 that criminal or terrorist organizations may also use such tools to
 encode their on-line activities. "The possibility for criminals to use
 these techniques, which are now available to all, justifies the
 adoption of judicial means to the fight against this new form of
 crime," Jospin said.
 
 Jospin also called for the creation of a harmonized international
 framework on cybercrime, a message delivered to the conference
 Sept. 24 by French President Jacques Chirac. Jospin took Chirac's
 call a step further, noting that governments should agree not to
 tolerate the use of the Internet for the transmission of racist, anti-
 Semitic, negationist or other forms of hate speech.
 
 Jospin's closing address also hit on a number of other issues on
 the conference agenda. He suggested that company
 cybersurveillance be subject to strict regulation, echoing
 comments from panelists in a Sept. 25 conference on privacy in
 the workplace, and urged the European Union to consider drafting
 legislation that would forbid the sale of personal health or medical
 data without the express prior consent of patients.
 
 Formal Discussions in Future
 
 Next year's 24th International Conference of Data Protection and
 Privacy Commissioners--scheduled for Sept. 9-11, 2002, in Cardiff,
 Wales, the United Kingdom--will take place in more formal
 circumstances after closed-door discussions between government
 officials led to the creation of a new body: the International
 Conference of Data Protection Authorities.
 
 A charter for the new multilateral personal data protection authority
 establishes rules defining the type of independent governmental
 bodies eligible for membership and the level of legal and
 adminstrative competence such bodies must have.
 
 The Paris Agreement also establishes a "credentials committee"
 charged with examining applications for membership and a system
 of auto-evaluation for existing members.
 
 Further information on the 23rd International Conference of Data
 Protection Commissioners, as well as the new International
 Conference of Data Protection Authorities, is available via Internet:
 http://www.cnil.fr.
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 published on: 2001-09-28
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