1 May 1999. Add Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti message.
30 April 1999
See Duncan Campbell's report yesterday:
http://jya.com/ilets-dc.htm
30 APRIL 1999
To : John Young
(WWW.JYA.COM), lists,
and others
From : Duncan Campbell
(mailto:iptv@cwcom.net
http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan)
This note contains pointers to articles just published about the latest
developments in European Union communications interception policy,
including
monitoring the Internet. The most important article identifies a
hitherto
unknown FBI-founded organisation called ILETS, which has met in secret for
6
years, and which has - unknown until now - led initiatives around the world
to
build comprehensive interception systems into new telecommunications
systems.
The full story about ILETS is published this week in Telepolis, the
European
on-line magazine, at:
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/enfo/6398/1.html
And in German at:
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6396/1.html
The news story is in English in the Guardian (UK) at:
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/The_Paper/Weekly/Story/0,3605,45981,00.html
And also in Telepolis:
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/enfo/6397/1.html
And in German at:
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6395/1.html
The latter three reports describe how the latest version of the ENFOPOL
interception plan has just been leaked in London. It reveals that although
the
name of the key document has been changed, European officials still want
to
make tapping the Internet official European policy by the end of May. They
are
pressing on, despite domestic opposition in Germany and Austria and recent
criticism by the European Parliament.
The new document is called ENFOPOL 19. It was obtained this week by the
Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR). (The name ENFOPOL
(Law
ENFOrcement/POLice matters) is the generic title given to documents on
these
subjects by the European Commission.)
FIPR has put the ENFOPOL 19 document online at:
http://www.fipr.org/polarch/index.html
These articles bring up to date the story of secret co-operation on
interception between the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK (ie,
the
UKUSA group), and the so-called "G5" group of EU nations (Germany, France,
Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK). Outside, the EU Norway and Hong
Kong are
members of ILETS. Within the EU, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg,
Ireland,
Italy, Greece, Eire, Denmark, Finland, Spain and Portugal have participated
in
ILETS.
This co-operation was first noticed in 1997, when the Statewatch group in
London found and publicised an EU resolution on interception that had been
adopted in January 1995, but which was not published until November 1996.
Observers noted that the European 1995 policy bore an unmistakable
resemblance
to US legislation, in particular the 1994 Communication Assistance to Law
Enforcement Act (CALEA). Since then legislation passed and/or
proposed in
Australia and other EU states has shown the same similarities.
The article about ILETS now reveals how this has happened, through a common
technical document called "IUR1.0" or "IUR95".
An updated IUR, which made new demands for Internet interception, security
measures, automatic downloading of subscriber personal information (among
other
measures) was drawn up in 1998. In September 1998, it was presented
to the
EU's Police Co-operation Working group as "ENFOPOL 98".
In November 1998, the German on-line magazine Telepolis obtained and
published
ENFOPOL 98. The stories above describe how ENFOPOL 98 has progressed
since.
The original ENFOPOL 98 story was reported in English in December 1998:
http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/Enfopol_98_Obs.htm
Telepolis has put the original (and scary) ENFOPOL 98 plan online at:
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6334/1.html
And in German at:
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6326/1.html
Erich Moechel and Armin Medosch have published English language accounts
of
their scoop at:
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/1667/1.html
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6329/1.html
The original scoop (in German) is at:
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/1663/1.html
1999 STOA REPORT ON GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS SURVEILLANCE AND ECHELON
Further information about ILETS and communications interception will be
published in the near future by STOA, the Science and Technology Options
Assessment Office of the European Parliament. This is contained
in a detailed
report I have written for STOA, "Interception Capabilities 2000" (IC2000).
The full title of the IC2000 report is "The state of the art in
Communications
intelligence (Comint) of automated processing for intelligence purposes of
intercepted broadband multi-language leased or common carrier systems, and
its
applicability to Comint targeting and selection, including speech
recognition". This is one of four reports commissioned
by STOA, concerning "The development of surveillance technology and risk
of abuse of economic information".
The other three studies cover legal, cryptographic and general issues.
IC2000 provides a documentary account of new ECHELON sites, systems and
targets
and an assessment of current Comint technology.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
* Further information would be welcome as to the extent to which the IUR
1995
and 1998 "requirements" have progressed into law in individual member or
related countries.
* Among the issues currently being discussed in the ILETS group is
cross-border
interception arrangements and agreements; interception of Iridium and other
satellite-based personal communications (mobile radio) systems.
Duncan Campbell
IPTV, Edinburgh
iptv@cwcom.net
http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan
To: "John Young" <jya@pipeline.com>,
"Duncan Campbell" <duncan@gn.apc.org>
Subject: Re: Latest developments on international interception policy
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 11:20:37 +0200
From: ch29@aol.com (Chr. Schulzki-Haddouti)
Duncan,
thank you for your BC.
Hello John Young,
Please also mention
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/default.html
where all articles about the Enfopol-plans are published. Most of them are in
German.
I did some analysis on Enfopol 98 and wrote about European and national
parliamentary activities.
I also did a report on the newest activites of the Enfopol working group on
child pornography.
It is published in telepolis:
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/2722/1.html
best,
Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti
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