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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";
color:#244061'>Thanks Rudy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";
color:#244061'>It´s a very interesting new.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";
color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";
color:#244061'>Just to add some “folk” to the new… something similar happened in
Argentina an year ago (February 2009) when the Supreme Court declares unconstitutional
a law known as “The Spy Law” which order to telecommunication providers allowing
intercept and forward “communications” (including its data) at request of
Judicial Power… the situation become worse when a decree ruled that the “authorized”
to intercept and analyze the communications was the Intelligent Department of
the State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";
color:#244061'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";
color:#244061'>Dra. Mónica Abalo Laforgia<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";
color:#244061'>Presidenta</span></i></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#244061'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";
color:#244061'>ISOC-Ar Capítulo Argentina<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";
color:#244061'>www.isoc.org.ar <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org
[mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org] <b>En nombre de </b>Rudi
Vansnick<br>
<b>Enviado el:</b> Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:06 AM<br>
<b>Para:</b> 'Chapter Delegates'; pubpol-wg@elists.isoc.org<br>
<b>Asunto:</b> [Chapter-delegates] German high court: law ordering phone,
e-mail traffic data retention violates constitution<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1>German high court: law ordering phone, e-mail traffic data retention
violates constitution<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p class=clearfix><span class=byline>MELISSA EDDY</span> <span class=titleline>Associated
Press Writer</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=date>5:23 AM EST, March 2, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>BERLIN (AP) — Germany's highest
court on Tuesday overturned a law allowing authorities to retain data on
telephone calls and e-mail traffic for help in tracking criminal networks.<br>
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A law ordering data on calls and e-mail exchanges be retained for six months
for possible use by criminal authorities violated Germans' constitutional right
to private correspondence and must be revised, the Federal Constitutional Court
ruled.<br>
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In its ruling, the court said the law failed to sufficiently balance the need
for personal privacy against that for providing security, although it did not
rule out data retention in principle.<br>
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"The disputed instructions neither provided a sufficient level of data
security, nor sufficiently limited the possible uses of the data," the
court said.<br>
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Nearly 35,000 Germans had appealed to the court to overturn the law, which
stems from a 2006 European Union anti-terrorism directive requiring
telecommunications companies to retain phone data and Internet logs for a
minimum of six months in case they are needed for criminal investigations.<br>
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The court upheld the EU directive, saying the problem lay instead with how the
German parliament chose to interpret it.<br>
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Under the German law, which went into effect Jan. 2008, information about all
calls from mobile or landline phones was retained for six months, including who
called whom, from where and for how long.<br>
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The following year, that law was expanded to include the data surrounding all
contact via e-mail.<br>
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Although the laws forbid authorities from retaining the contents of either form
of communication, they met with fierce opposition from civil rights groups.<br>
<br>
"Massive amounts of data about German citizens who pose no threat and are
not suspects is being retained," Germany's commissioner for data security
issues, Peter Schaar, told ARD's morning show.<br>
<br>
Experts argue the information is crucial to being able to trace crimes
involving heavy use of the Internet, including tracking terror networks and
pursuing child pornography.<br>
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Associated Press writer Verena Schmitt-Roschmann contributed to this report.<br>
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<a
href="http://www.fox43.com/business/sns-ap-eu-germany-data-retention,0,1005335.story">http://www.fox43.com/business/sns-ap-eu-germany-data-retention,0,1005335.story</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Rudi
Vansnick<br>
</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>President
Internet Society Belgium vzw</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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