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Re: Everyone wants in on the act...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Mon May 17 12:17:33 1999
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu>
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Date: 16 May 1999 15:01:07 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Perry E. Metzger"'s message of "14 May 1999 14:27:28 -0400"
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>> EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WANTS ISPs TO SPY
>> The European Parliament last Friday passed the Lawful Interception of
>> Communications council resolution on new technologies -- known as Enfopol --
>> which requires Internet service providers and telephone companies to provide
>> law-enforcement agencies with full-time, real-time access to Internet
>> transmissions, even those traversing along multiple networks.
The full article says the resolution is non-binding. This means that
Europeans should call their local MPs (or whatever the equivalent is
in your country), and tell them why implementing this non-binding
resolution is such a bad idea (both technically and morally).
Marc
