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                Date: 2000-07-13
                 
                 
                UK: Allianz gegen RIP-Bill
                
                 
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      Gegen das Überwachungsgesetz RIP hat sich eine bunte &  
breite Allianz zusammengefunden, die von Amnesty  
International über die wichtigsten Gewerkschaften,  
Industrievertreter bis zu den "usual suspects" aus dem  
Cyber/libertären Lager reicht. 
 
Hintergrund 
http://service.quintessenz.at/cgi-bin/htsearch?method=and&format=builtin-long&config=quisse&restrict=&exclude=&sort=score&words=RIP&submit=Suchen
                   
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relayed by David Banisar <banisar@privacy.org> via Global  
Internet Liberty Campaign <gilc-plan@gilc.org> 
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This letter is being introduced in the House of Lords  
tomorrow. Its a rare day when Amnesty Intl, Article 19 and  
the Countryside Alliance (the people who organize large  
marches for fox hunting in London), along with many of the  
major trade unions, and doctors groups in a single letter. 
 
An online petition will start shortly on this. 
 
Dave 
 
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OPEN LETTER CONCERNING THE REGULATION OF  
INVESTIGATORY POWERS BILL 
 
 
We wish to express our opposition to the UK government's  
Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) bill. 
 
We agree that the government has a duty to protect public  
safety, but the RIP bill is neither an acceptable nor a  
responsible means of achieving this goal. We are deeply  
concerned that the bill will inhibit the development of the  
Internet and e-commerce, while creating a range of onerous  
and unfair impositions on individuals, organisations and  
companies. 
 
The bill substantially increases the power of law enforcement  
and security agencies, and yet provides wholly inadequate  
measures for authorisation and oversight. The ability of  
Government to demand decryption keys creates a dangerous  
precedent which will affect the rights of all computer users.  
Surveillance of website visits will undermine confidence in the  
Internet as a means of communication. 
 
We urge the government to withdraw the bill. Any subsequent  
legislation should, at the very least, provide stringent  
limitations and oversight to ensure that it does not violate the  
rights to liberty, fair trial, freedom of expression, freedom of  
association, and privacy. 
 
SIGNED (at 11th June 2000) 
 
Privacy International 
 
Amnesty International 
 
The Telecommunications Managers Association 
 
John Wadham, director Liberty 
 
Professor J Stuart Horner University of Central Lancashire 
 
Index on Censorship 
 
The Countryside Alliance 
 
Professor Ian Angell, London School of Economics 
 
Tony Bunyan Editor, Statewatch 
 
Professor Michael Pidd President, Operational Research  
Society 
 
Manufacturing, Science & Finance Union 
 
Professor Michael Pringle, chairman Royal College of  
General Practitioners 
 
Esther Dyson, chairman, EDventure Holdings 
 
Helen Bamber, director Medical Foundation for the Care of  
Victims of Torture 
 
Professor George Alberti 
 
Claire Rayner, Patients Association 
 
Richard Blair 
 
Feminists Against Censorship 
 
Consumers International 
 
Caspar Bowden, director Foundation for Information Policy  
Research 
 
Campaign Against Censorship of the Internet in Britain 
 
Christine Hancock, General Secretary Royal College of  
Nursing 
 
UK UNIX Users Group 
 
Dr Margaret Jones Brook Advisory Centres 
 
Dr Fleur Fisher, Chairman, BMA Foundation for AIDS 
 
Frances D'Souza CMG 
 
Poptel 
 
The Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematography and  
Theatre Union 
 
Dr Brian Gladman 
 
First Tuesday 
 
Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) 
 
Frances Blunden, Director Prevention of Professional Abuse  
Network 
 
GreenNet 
 
The National Union of Journalists 
 
Article 19 
 
Relatives for Justice, Northern Ireland 
 
Campaign Against the Arms Trade 
 
The Society of Editors 
 
Simon Moores Chairman, The Research Group 
 
Charter 88 
 
UNISON 
 
Mark Thomas Vera Productions 
 
The Internet Society (England) 
 
The Future Trust 
 
Peter Tatchell OutRage! 
 
Mike Slocombe urban75 
 
Campaign for Freedom of Information 
 
Duncan Campbell 
 
Roger Goss Director, Patient Concern  
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