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IP: Latest developments on international interception policy (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue May 4 16:52:40 1999
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 04 May 1999 15:53:51 -0400
Forwarded from Dave Farbers' IP list:
>From: Duncan Campbell <duncan@gn.apc.org>
>Subject: Latest developments on international interception policy
>
>THE ENFOPOL AFFAIR
>
>INTERNATION COLLABORATION ON TAPPING : THE HIDDEN HAND OF ILETS
>
>30 APRIL 1999
>
>
>To : John Young (www.jya.com), uk-crypto, LACC, IP, others
>
> From : Duncan Campbell (mailto:iptv@cwcom.net http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan)
>
>This note contains pointers to articles just published about the latest
>developments in European Union communications interception policy,
>including monitoring the Internet. The most important article identifies a
>hitherto unknown FBI-founded organisation called ILETS, which has met in
>secret for 6 years, and which has - unknown until now - led initiatives
>around the world to build comprehensive interception systems into new
>telecommunications systems.
>
>The full story about ILETS is published this week in Telepolis, the
>European on-line magazine, at:
>http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/enfo/6398/1.html
>
>And in German at:
>http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6396/1.html
>
>The news story is in English in the Guardian (UK) at:
>http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/The_Paper/Weekly/Story/0,3605,45981,00.html
>
>And also in Telepolis:
>http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/enfo/6397/1.html
>
>And in German at:
>http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6395/1.html
>
>The latter three reports describe how the latest version of the ENFOPOL
>interception plan has just been leaked in London. It reveals that although
>the name of the key document has been changed, European officials still
>want to make tapping the Internet official European policy by the end of
>May. They are pressing on, despite domestic opposition in Germany and
>Austria and recent criticism by the European Parliament.
>
>The new document is called ENFOPOL 19. It was obtained this week by the
>Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR). (The name ENFOPOL (Law
>ENFOrcement/POLice matters) is the generic title given to documents on
>these subjects by the European Commission.)
>
>FIPR has put the ENFOPOL 19 document online at:
>http://www.fipr.org/polarch/index.html
>
>These articles bring up to date the story of secret co-operation on
>interception between the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK (ie,
>the UKUSA group), and the so-called "G5" group of EU nations (Germany,
>France, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK). Outside, the EU Norway and
>Hong Kong are members of ILETS. Within the EU, Austria, Belgium,
>Luxembourg, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Eire, Denmark, Finland, Spain and
>Portugal have participated in ILETS.
>
>This co-operation was first noticed in 1997, when the Statewatch group in
>London found and publicised an EU resolution on interception that had been
>adopted in January 1995, but which was not published until November 1996.
>
>Observers noted that the European 1995 policy bore an unmistakable
>resemblance to US legislation, in particular the 1994 Communication
>Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). Since then legislation passed
>and/or proposed in Australia and other EU states has shown the same
>similarities.
>
>The article about ILETS now reveals how this has happened, through a common
>technical document called "IUR1.0" or "IUR95".
>
>An updated IUR, which made new demands for Internet interception, security
>measures, automatic downloading of subscriber personal information (among
>other measures) was drawn up in 1998. In September 1998, it was presented
>to the EU's Police Co-operation Working group as "ENFOPOL 98".
>
>In November 1998, the German on-line magazine Telepolis obtained and
>published ENFOPOL 98. The stories above describe how ENFOPOL 98 has
>progressed since.
>
>The original ENFOPOL 98 story was reported in English in December 1998:
>http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/Enfopol_98_Obs.htm
>
>Telepolis has put the original (and scary) ENFOPOL 98 plan online at:
>http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6334/1.html
>
>And in German at:
>http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6326/1.html
>
>Erich Moechel and Armin Medosch have published English language accounts of
>their scoop at:
>http://www.telepolis.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/1667/1.html
>http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/special/enfo/6329/1.html
>
>The original scoop (in German) is at:
>http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/1663/1.html
>
>
>1999 STOA REPORT ON GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS SURVEILLANCE AND ECHELON
>
>Further information about ILETS and communications interception will be
>published in the near future by STOA, the Science and Technology Options
>Assessment Office of the European Parliament. This is contained in a
>detailed report I have written for STOA, "Interception Capabilities 2000"
>(IC2000).
>
>The full title of the IC2000 report is "The state of the art in
>Communications intelligence (Comint) of automated processing for
>intelligence purposes of intercepted broadband multi-language leased or
>common carrier systems, and its applicability to Comint targeting and
>selection, including speech recognition". This is one of four reports
>commissioned by STOA, concerning "The development of surveillance
>technology and risk of abuse of economic information". The other three
>studies cover legal, cryptographic and general issues.
>
>IC2000 provides a documentary account of new ECHELON sites, systems and
>targets and an assessment of current Comint technology.
>
>
>RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
>
>* Further information would be welcome as to the extent to which the IUR
>1995 and 1998 "requirements" have progressed into law in individual member
>or related countries.
>
>* Among the issues currently being discussed in the ILETS group is
>cross-border interception arrangements and agreements; interception of
>Iridium and other satellite-based personal communications (mobile radio)
>systems.
>
>
>Duncan Campbell
>IPTV, Edinburgh
>iptv@cwcom.net
>http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan
