[Chapter-delegates] [Ecc-council] Not so good news: Bulgarian Government attempts wire tapping, data retention

[Marcin Cieslak]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Veni Markovski wrote:

> http://sofiaecho.com/2010/01/13/841829_bulgarias-online-eavesdropping-game
> and
> http://sofiaecho.com/2009/12/18/831890_the-eyes-have-it
>
> We are seeing more and more attempts by even EU member states to control the
> Internet, one way or another. In this particular case, we hope we've managed
> to stop the suggested interface to be installed at the level of Internet
> Service Providers. But what exactly the Parliament will vote, is tough to
> guess.
> I am curious, if other countries have similar issues?

There were also good news from Bulgaria:

http://www.edri.org/edri-gram/number6.24/bulgarian-administrative-case-data-retention

as well as very important decision from Constitutional Court of Romania:

http://www.legi-internet.ro/english/jurisprudenta-it-romania/decizii-it/romanian-constitutional-court-decision-regarding-data-retention.html

But in general, yes, I have to agree. We hear about projects to introduce
remote eavesdropping via the Internet, among others.

--Marcin