Glyn sez,
This Wednesday, MEPs will vote on the Telecoms package. Two amendments have been tabled which in particular will ensure the new telecoms regulations protect European citizens from unreasonable surveillance and censure. If you have half an hour why not write to to your MEPs and ask them to support these amendments?
Amendment 133 is an anti-filtering amendment, and will add the following text to the Directive:
“Member States shall ensure that no technology may be mandated by competent authorities which would facilitate surveillance of internet users, such as technologies that mirror or monitor the user’s actions and/or interfere with operations of the user’s network activity for the benefit of a third party (known as ‘filtering’).”Amendment 138 ensures that sanctions cannot be imposed on end-users without judicial oversight. It will add the following text to the Directive:
“applying the principle that no restriction may be imposed on the rights and freedoms of end-users, notably in accordance with Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union on freedom of expression and information, without a prior ruling by the judicial authorities, except where dictated by force majeure or by the requirements of preserving network integrity and security, and subject to national provisions of criminal law imposed for reasons of public policy, public security or public morality.”
To do this weekend: ask your MEPs to vote for Telecom package amendments 133 and 138
(Thanks, Glyn!)