Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-12-Speech-1-038"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Agenda2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010312.5.1-038"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-12-Speech-1-0392
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul A.A.J.G. Lannoye2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Ecolo (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 chair; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, for some months now, European citizens have had reason to wonder whether their telephone, fax and e-mail messages are being treated as confidential. We now know that the Echelon system does exist and that the US National Security Agency is, in all likelihood, the main user of the system. For some days now, Members of the European Parliament have had reason to wonder whether the Commission’s internal communications are being treated as confidential. At a meeting of the Temporary Committee investigating the Echelon affair, a senior official responsible for the encryption of confidential information said that he had always been on very good terms with the NSA in Washington and that they check our systems on a regular basis to ensure that they really are secure and are being used correctly. He said that he was extremely pleased to see that the American secret service had tried for two weeks but had not been able to break the encryption. If we take a lighter view of this, it is almost like a bank manager asking some safe-breakers to check that the bank’s safes were secure and, if they said that they were indeed secure, he would take their word for it. I think that we can draw an analogy between this situation and our own. The clarifications and denials made by this official’s superiors were hardly convincing. I do not think that any Member here was swayed by them. I think that this is, therefore, a political problem, not just an implausible affair and it should be cleared up in Parliament. That is why we are calling for Mr Patten, the Commissioner responsible, to explain the current situation to us and we shall then decide how to follow this up."@en1

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