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Orwellian invasion of privacy at Republic of Macedonia

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posted on Jun, 17 2010 @ 04:31 PM
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It seems the US government is not alone and it's scary that this could become a trend with governments all over the globe.

Several blogs and websites in Macedonia seem to be reporting what they call an unconstitutional change of the law and are trying to rise awareness on the population to fight against it.

Here are some quotes from a macedonian citizen:



“Today the Law of Electronic Communications was amended in the Macedonian parliament with 55 for and 9 votes against (of 120 total, 91 were present, the remainder abstained). In a very Orwellian manner, the law grants the government constant and direct access to electronic communication networks (mainly telcos and internet providers) and obliges the providers of these services to enable the government (Ministry of Interior) to download of traffic data without oversight, through equipment which provides an interface to logs for phone-calls, TCP/UDP/IP traffic and every other means of transferring data to and from machines. The provided link is from an NGO that started to raise awareness for the law, but sadly as the government here doesn't pay much attention to independent thinking, they ignored the whole initiative.”

As a reminder, Article 17 from the Constitution:

(1) The freedom and confidentiality of correspondence and other forms of communication is guaranteed.
(2) Only a court decision may authorize non-application of the principle of the inviolability of the confidentiality of correspondence and other forms of communication, in cases where it is indispensable to a criminal investigation or required in the interests of the defense of the Republic.

The negative aspects of this step by the government are tremendous: for the people who now can be “legally” eavesdropped on without court order, and without any possibility to prevent potential abuse, but also for Macedonia's international reputation.


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Here in Brazil, our Federal Police can order Telcos to wiretap cell phone conversations and ISPs are supposed to save a 3year old log of all traffic from users.



[edit on 17-6-2010 by henriquefd]

[edit on 17-6-2010 by henriquefd]



posted on Jun, 17 2010 @ 05:04 PM
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thanks for this information.
its important that things like that are made aware of.
especially if it wont show up in the mainstream media so often.



 
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