[e-privacy] [chlaurant at epic.org: New Austrian constitutional court decision on data retention]

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

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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