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26.12.2007: Press statement: President Horst Köhler signs Data Retention Act Author: Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung (Working Group against Data Retention), 2007-12-26 Today President Horst Köhler signed the German act on telecommunications data retention. Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung, the German Working Group against Data Retention, and numerous other non-governmental organizations and trade associations [1], however, are meeting Köhler's approval with bewilderment, criticizing sharply the law reform introducing an obligatory 6-months data retention for all telecommunications service providers as being in violation of the bill of rights granted by Germany's federal constitution. Due to its serious constitutional concerns the working group, together with more than 25,000 co-appellants, is about to file a complaint with the German Federal Constitutional Court. In his 150-pages petition[2], Berlin resident attorney Meinhard Starostik is further applying for a preliminary injunction to immediately suspend obligatory data retention on the grounds of "obvious unconstitutionality". A more detailed press statement will be released shortly. For current information please see our press center: http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Press_center About AK Vorratsdatenspeicherung Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung is a German association of civil rights and privacy activists as well as regular Internet users that runs a campaign against the complete logging of all telecommunications data. A critical review of common pro-data-retention arguments: [1] Joint statement of 45 German NGOs: [2] The complaint with the German Federal Constitutional court (in German):
27.12.2007: Berlin: Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung auf dem 24th Chaos Communication CongressDer Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung informiert auf dem 24. Chaos Communication Congress im Berliner bcc umfassend über seine Arbeit gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung und andere Überwachungsthemen. Hierzu wird es Vorträge, Workshops und (außerhalb des offiziellen Programms) Arbeitsgruppen geben, sowie einen permanenten Infostand (Level C, near the main auditorium, details will follow). Die Beiträge im einzelnen:
Informationen und Detailplanung: AK Vorrat im Congress-Wiki.
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