[Chapter-delegates] European Parliament: Security yes, but fundamental user rights too

[Jozef Halbersztadt]

Empire strikes back

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Written by Monica Horten
Mar 31, 2009 at 03:52 PM

There was bad news for users and ISPs as the European Parliament's IMCO
commitee voted today on Telecoms Package amendments which will  limit
what users can do on the Internet. The vote signalled that the Package
is again opening the door to 3-strikes measures: proposals related to
users rights were either rejected or are being amended to remove rights,
 and ISPs will not get reimbursed for sending warning messages.

(...)

The IMCO vote contradicts the vote last week on the Lambrinidis report,
where fundamental freedoms on the Internet were upheld.


Marcin Cieslak pisze:
> In a recently published European Parliament recommendation of 26 March
> 2009 to the Council on strengthening security and fundamental freedoms
> on the Internet (2008/2160(INI))
> 
> Among others:
> 
> "transparency, respect for privacy and an environment of trust amongst
> I-stakeholders should be considered indispensable elements in order to
> build a sustainable security vision for the Internet,"
> 
> "on the Internet, freedom of expression and privacy can at the same time
> be both better enhanced and more exposed to intrusions and limitations
> by both private and public actors,"
> 
> "these crimes must be countered effectively and decisively, without
> altering the fundamental free and open nature of the Internet,"
> 
> "in a democratic society, it is the citizens who are entitled to observe
> and to judge daily the actions and beliefs of their governments and of
> private companies that provide them with services; whereas
> technologically advanced surveillance techniques, sometimes coupled with
> the absence of adequate legal safeguards regarding the limits of their
> application, increasingly threaten this principle,"
> 
> Accepted with 481 votes in favour, 25 against and 21 abstentions.
> The recommendation text: http://42.pl/u/1AvQ
> 
> Press release: http://42.pl/u/1AvR
> 
> I think this is a very important resolution, sadly without direct legal
> value. It's the first time the European Parliament has addressed the
> cybersecurity issues.
> 
> 
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