July 7th EP committee vote to create traffic snooping

Glyn Wintle glynwintle at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 9 12:13:13 UTC 2008


I recommend listening to Malcom Harbour MEP and Lilian Edwards (ORG Advisory) on this podcast from the BBC. The result is he is willing to amend the directive make clear that it will not enforce three strikes, etc. It is meant to give users rights.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/pods/pods_20080708-1954.mp3


--- On Wed, 7/9/08, Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran at fsfe.org> wrote:

> From: Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran at fsfe.org>
> Subject: Re: July 7th EP committee vote to create traffic snooping
> To: discussion at fsfeurope.org
> Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 12:27 PM
> 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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