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"Don't play Big Brother" is business plea to governments on Internet traffic

  • 20-01-2003 2:04pm
    #1
    vinnyfitz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭


    The International Chamber of Commere (ICC) Business users and providers of communications services have called on the European Union and governments to scale down their storage requirements for traffic data to the minimum necessary to fight crime and terrorism. They have also warned governments that differing national data retention policies will make it impossible for communication service providers to operate effectively. Such inconsistencies would destroy the ability of service providers in countries with the most stringent requirements to compete internationally, a statement by International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) corporate experts said. see Policy statement on the impact of Internet content regulation (ICC) Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms. 18 January 2003

    http://www.iccwbo.org/home/news_archives/2002/stories/big_brother.asp

    I know this is 2 months old but I just found it today.


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  • #2
    karlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭karlin


    I quoted from this release back in November, in the follow-up story I did on the Dept of Justice intending to introduce the 3-yr data retention bill. As a matter of fact they (Int'l Chamber of Commerce) called me at the Times to check facts so they could include a mention of Ireland's 3-year retention plan in the release [grin]. See, the good guys (in this case, two good[-ish] gals) sometimes collaborate...;)

    I've had a tip off that there are those at senior levels of govt who are indeed influenced by the angle of argument voiced by the Chamber and are disturbed at the implications for business and consumers if data is retained for this long period. This is positive, some of the first good rumblings I've heard from *within* govt. A business argument always, always helps (and has made the pro-business conservatives in the US powerful bedfellows with libertarians and lefties on data privacy issues for precisely this reason).

    BTW anyone interested in the UK parliamentary report that gives a thumbs down to the UK data retention proposal can find the full report here (pdf): http://www.apig.org.uk/APIGreport.pdf

    Karlin


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