Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-05-Speech-3-042"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-09-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:”Echelon”2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010905.2.3-042"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-09-05-Speech-3-0432
lpv:speaker	lp:Mario Borghezio2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Lega Nord per l'indipendenza della Padania (2001-06-14--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2001-07-05--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2001-07-02--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2001-06-15--2002-01-14)3 member; TGI (2001-06-14--2001-10-02)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I have the greatest reservations regarding the mild and, in parts, hesitant nature of the report, for it underestimates the dangers of global monitoring of communications and does not propose adequate autonomous defence measures for Europe. In theory, the European Union could certainly negotiate a memorandum of understanding allowing the Member States to use this information but, for the moment and in the short term, the European Union must think about protecting itself autonomously with a different cryptographic system from those currently in place, such as the state of the art Hermes system which is the product of European research, with remote point-to-point transport so that the data cannot be captured by the spy satellite. The report appears to avoid this specific question: can the use of data collected using Echelon by the security services of one of the Member States, the United Kingdom, actually lead to tangible cases of espionage against European citizens or companies by the United States? These are questions which we must ask ourselves, seeing as the same US Congress raised the issue of whether the surveillance carried out by the NSA on US citizens was not a practice which contravened the Constitution. It has been said and must be said again that even NGOs such as Amnesty International and Greenpeace and even people who are completely above suspicion such as Mother Teresa of Calcutta have been intercepted by the Echelon system. That is worrying. The President of STOA, an ex-Member of Parliament, Mr Pompidou, commented that many European companies have already suffered because of the existence of ECHELON, but they do not expose it because they still trade with the United States and have to continue to do so in the future. Therefore, we wonder what legal protection there is to protect European companies against such damages. What means do they have of proving that they have been wronged? Moreover, what funding is there for European research in major, strategic sectors such as cryptography? These are questions which the report does not answer."@en1

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