PRIVACY/EU: CONFIDENTIAL EUROPOL DOCUMENT ON DATA RETENTION: NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERTS ARE WORKING A WISH LIST OF CITIZENS' COMMUNICATIONS DATA TO BE RETAINED IN THE EU

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31/05/2002 | PRIVACY/EU: CONFIDENTIAL EUROPOL DOCUMENT ON DATA RETENTION: NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERTS ARE WORKING A WISH LIST OF CITIZENS' COMMUNICATIONS DATA TO BE RETAINED IN THE EU

After the European Parliament vote of yesterday on data retention, and after rumors of a EU legal instrument on harmonised data retention measures, a confidential Europol document confirms EU activities on the issue. The document reveals that national law enforcement experts are working in the framework of Europol to draft a wish list of citizens' communications data to be retained in the EU. This document contains the agenda of the April Europol meeting of national experts, and one of the issues that was discussed was the directive on privacy in electronic communcations, that after the EP vote will contain an explicit authorisation for Member States to adopt legislative measures of data retention. It contains also a list of communications data, and an invitation to Member States to provide comments.
You can find the Europol confidential document on the
http://www.radicalparty.org/europol/europol.pdf webpage.

Declaration by Marco Cappato, Radical MEP of the Lista Bonino, and Ottavio Marzocchi, of the Transnational Radical Party Board:

"This document appears to fit in a more general EU strategy to develop Europeanwide data retention and surveillance measures. A first step has been the success of the Council pressures on the Commission and the EP to insert in the EU directive on privacy in electronic communications provisions authorising data retention at the national level. A second step is the development of national laws and European harmonised Third Pillar measures on data retention. It is extremely worrying that on those issues secrecy and silence are kept by EU governments and by the Council, while a proper public debate should take place, since those measures infringe the fundamental humanright to privacy and civil liberties in general. We shall keep on being vigilant on this issue, since the damage to democracy could be extremely serious. We will table in the next days a question to the Commission and to the Council on this document and on the issue of data retention."

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