[e-privacy] Fwd: New Austrian constitutional court decision on data retention

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 18:26:28 -0400
From: Cedric Laurant <chlaurant at epic.org>
Subject: New Austrian constitutional court decision on data retention
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New Austrian constitutional court decision on data retention

The Austrian Federal Constitutional Court held in a decision rendered
on February 27, 2003 that the Austrian statute that compels
telecommunication service providers to implement wiretapping measures
at their own expense is unconstitutional. From now on, the Austrian
government will have to bear wiretapping implementation expenses  
unless it can show that expenses on the private sector can be
justified for exceptional reasons. See EPIC's outline and comments on
the decision.

See outline and comments at
http://www.epic.org/privacy/intl/austrian_vfgh-022703.html
and
EPIC's international data retention web page at
http://www.epic.org/privacy/intl/data_retention.html

Cedric

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