Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-10-23-Speech-3-182"
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"en.20021023.4.3-182"2
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"Mr President, like other speakers, I think it is deplorable that nothing has happened since Parliament's Echelon report. People still do not feel adequately protected. The Council should adopt a framework decision which provides protection against the activities of intelligence services of other Member States or third countries. The very existence of systems for the indiscriminate interception of communications is a violation of Article 6 of the EU Treaty, as the Commissioner himself has recognised.
It is also essential that an agreement should be negotiated and signed between the European Union and the United States, stipulating that each party should observe the provisions governing protection of the privacy of citizens and the confidentiality of business communications.
My group is strongly opposed to the actions taken by the Council with a view to bringing telecommunications interception capabilities into line with the new technologies. We particularly oppose the adoption of the directive under which Member States may, inter alia, adopt legislative measures providing for the retention of data for a limited period.
The presidency needs to produce some sort of strategy to bring an end to the existence within the European Union of parallel data protection systems and the proliferation of monitoring authorities – for example Schengen, Europol or customs conventions. They work on the basis of differing protection standards and outside true democratic and legal scrutiny.
Finally, the promotion of encryption cannot be a substitute for efforts to find political solutions – more strict legal guarantees and effective parliamentary control, for example. To say that encryption will solve our problems is an admission of failure."@en1
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