[SWLUG] data retention etc...

[vlado]

I think this is of interest to a lot of people on the list:

The Open Rights Group has issued their first news issue, and as part
from that they ask for an "Urgent Data Retention ACTION NEEDED BY
THURSDAY 2005-09-22".   http://www.openrightsgroup.org/

If you don't know what is this data retention thing about - just read
the proposal of the commition
(http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/sep/com-data-retention-prop.pdf) or
summaries, analysis and discussions on the matter at the [usual
suspects] various concerned orgs.

The links below are copied from a scribble on my website, so sorry if
they are a bit messy. You can always get them cleaner and maybe updated
at http://dikini.net/node/16

[[http://europe.tiscali.co.uk/index.jsp?section=Current%
20Affairs&level=preview&content=386332|EU Lawyers Slam Data Retention
Proposal]]
[[http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/apr/02eu-data-retention.htm|EU:
Data Retention proposal partly illegal, say Council and Commission
lawyers]]
[[http://org.suw.org.uk/2005/09/orgnews_issue_1_1.html|ORGnews Issue 1]]
[[http://org.suw.org.uk/data_retention|Open Rights Group: Data
Retention]]
[[ http://www.edri.org/docs/lettertoUKpres.pdf|joint letter from EDRi
and Privacy International to the Council of Ministers on the problems
with data retention]]

Excuse me if you deem this off topic

Cheers,
Vlado