July 7th EP committee vote to create traffic snooping

Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran at fsfe.org
Wed Jul 9 11:27:37 UTC 2008


AFAICT, the telecoms package amendments were mostly adopted, which is bad.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7495085.stm

As usual, the coverage of this is blurred by word games about this not being
about "enforcement" but being about "users rights", etc.

I haven't watched the post-vote press conference, but if you log in, you
should be able to see the video here:
http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/download/audio_download_en.cfm?id=125266&src=6
(I can only hope the video is in an open standard format)


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