[e-privacy] AK vorrat e la lotta contro la data retention UE

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Template di lettera da mandare ai propri rappresentanti in Comunità
Europea. E' una di quelle cose belle, "se fosse fatta da tante persone",
per questo inoltro, con la speranza che si scrivano queste mail, ed
eventuali domande. Sotto trovate anche il link all'elenco dei
rappresentanti dell'unione.

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Dear Claudio,

the Commission is currently carrying out an impact assessment on the
future options with regard to the controversial Data Retention
Directive. It has also commissioned a study into approaches to, and the
costs and benefits of, data preservation in the EU and around the world.
Both exercises are to be completed by May 2012. A Commission proposal to
amend the Data Retention Directive is to be presented in July.

Unfortunately the Commission is considering not to assess policy
options proposed by civil society, namely:
a) The option of an EU-wide prohibition of blanket communications
data retention in favour of a system of expedited preservation and
targeted collection of traffic data as agreed on in the Council of
Europe's cybercrime convention,
b) The option of no longer make blanket communications data
retention mandatory throughout the EU, and to regulate and restrict
national retention schemes where such exist only.

This is how you can help end blanket retention of our communications
data without cause at this stage:

1) The authors of the study mentioned above are asking NGOs to
answer a catalogue of questions on varous policy options. Please
participate and express your views, either by using and modifying
the AK Vorrat draft answers or by answering all questions from
scratch.

Find the AK Vorrat draft reply here:
<http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/images/DRD_NGO_questionnaire-AK_Vorrat_answers.doc>

The online survey is available here:
<http://www.cses.co.uk/surveys/drd-ngo/>

Although responses are to be handed in by today, they will probably
be taken into account despite a delay of a few days.

2) By asking critical questions to the Commission, MEPs can help
convince it to consider the options proposed by civil society in
their impact assessment. The more MEPs are asking questions, and the
less they are the "usual suspects/critics", the more will the
Commission accept that there is serious pressure to abolish
compulsory data retention. If many MEPs asked questions this would
be very effective.

Please ask Members of the European Parliament in your country to
submit questions on data retention to the Commission.

Some example questions which you could suggest MEPs should ask the
Commission are to be found here:
http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/DR-questions-2012

Thank you for your help in ending compulsory data retention.

Best regards,
Patrick Breyer
German Working Group on Data Retention (AK Vorrat)
P.Breyer at vorratsdatenspeicherung.de


Example letter to your Members of European Parliament (directory of
MEPs at
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch.do?language=EN):

Dear Mr/Ms...,

I am writing on behalf of [METTI LA TUA ORG QUI], one of more than
100 organisations from 23 European countries who in June 2010 asked
EU Commissioners Malmström, Reding and Kroes to "propose the repeal
of the EU requirements regarding data retention in favour of a
system of expedited preservation and targeted collection of traffic
data".

The EU data retention directive 2006/24 currently compels phone and
Internet companies throughout the EU to indiscriminately collect data
about all of their customers' communications. Many European (e.g.
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Romania, Sweden) and non-European states
(e.g. the US, Canada, Japan, Australia) prosecute crime just as
effectively using targeted instruments, such as the data
preservation regime agreed in the Council of Europe Convention on
Cybercrime. As explained in our letter (see below), generalised data
retention puts confidential activity and contacts, for example with
journalists, crisis lines and business partners, at risk of disclosure
by way of data leaks and abuses. We believe that such invasive
surveillance of the entire population is unacceptable. Blanket data
retention legislation has been ruled unconstitutional by several
national courts.

Unfortunately the Commission is refusing to even consider the option
of an EU-wide ban on blanket communications data retention in favour
of a system of expedited preservation and targeted collection of
traffic data as agreed on in the Council of Europe's cybercrime
convention.

Could you please ask the Commission how it intends to address our
concerns and whether it will allow member states to opt out of blanket
data retention in the future. We would also be interested in the
Commission’s position regarding the following question: (insert
question here).

Yours sincerely,
...


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