-Caveat Lector- Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/ Talking about the Univ. Declaration of Human Rights ... [This comes on top of their present ability to tap all non-mobile phones, doesn't it ?] =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Revealed: secret plan to tap all mobile phones By Duncan Campbell Observer (London) Sunday December 6, 1998 Plans for an international network of centres able to tap mobile phones anywhere in Europe have been prepared by European law enforcement agencies. Confidential European Union documents leaked in Germany and obtained by The Observer outline plans for instant-access centres across Europe, equipped to tap every type of communications system, including mobile phones, the Internet, fax machines, pagers and interactive cable television services. Under the plan, Enfopol 98, European telecommunications companies will be required to build tapping connections into their systems. Each EU country's 'interception interface' must be capable of allowing member states to tap communications throughout the EU. The US, Canada and Australia are likely to participate in the network, giving the FBI and other non-European security agencies access to communications in Europe. Enfopol 98 will be put into operation as part of the new European Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance, which Ministers - including Home Secretary Jack Straw and Home Office Minister Kate Hoey - discussed at the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council in Brussels last week. =46inal details of the convention are likely to be agreed by the council early next year. By 2000, member states' parliaments would have to ratify it as part of national law. The leaked document was published last week by Telepolis, a German Internet magazine. A draft resolution to be sent to Ministers after the convention is in force specifies 54 requirements for interception laws. When the resolution reaches the council many technical details will have been hidden. According to the latest leaked Enfopol 98 document, distributed last month, they will appear in a 'technical handbook' on interception and in 'accompanying papers'. By making new laws in this way, Ministers have evaded public scrutiny and even awareness of their plans. "National parliaments, as well as the European Parliament and its citizens, are being excluded from the development of legislation that has the most profound implications for civil liberties," said Tony Bunyan, director of the European civil liberties monitoring organisation, Statewatch. Under the Enfopol plan, interception interfaces in telephone exchanges and Internet centres must provide 'real time, full-time' access. Security regulations say 'interception interfaces' must be located in 'barrier areas with controlled access'. Staff would need security clearances and have to comply with 'national security regulations', it being illegal to reveal how many people were tapped or how monitoring was done. Several tapping centres could listen in at once: 'network operators (should) make provision for implementing a number of simultaneous intercepts.' Communications services are increasingly using cryptography (codes) to protect the privacy of communications. If they do, Enfopol says the codes must be broken and information supplied in audible or legible form. 'The downloading of cryptographic key material should be immediate,' it says, so that 'an efficient, economic and current operation is guaranteed'. To make the new tapping system simple and fast to operate, a secret expert group has been developing a 'tag' system that can identify individuals wherever they are. Called the 'International User Requirements for Interception' (IUR), the data to be passed from country to country include not only names, addresses and -hone numbers, but credit card numbers, PIN codes, e-mail addresses, and computer log-on identities and passwords. Tapping centres will have to be sent information not only about ordinary phone calls, but also about conference calls, redirected calls, unanswered calls and even when phones are switched on. Mobile phones will be used to track a target's movements. 'Law enforcement agencies require information on the most accurate geographical location known to the network for mobile subscribers.' The 40-page document admits the new system 'raises many questions regarding national sovereignty', and that the 'interception interfaces' will place heavy costs on companies. But it makes no reference to civil liberties and human rights. The document "turns civil rights into worthy platitudes", Austrian Green MEP Johannes Voggenhuber said last week. In Britain, preliminary drafts of the agreement have not been seen by the House of Commons but have been reviewed by the House of Lords committee on the European Community, which has asked for changes to protect individual privacy. Last February, the committee told the Government: "The citizen is unlikely to have confidence in any procedure shrouded in secrecy. The existence and framework of international mutual assistance involving interception of telecommunications... should be clear and transparent to all." ** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. ** _____________________________________________________ * The Activist * http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian =20 This is not about the world that we inherited from our forefathers, It is about the world we have borrowed from our children !! _____________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
