[pp.int.general] help needed

[Bogomil Shopov]

Please send this info to all press contacts you can. We NEED your support
now:

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*For immediate release*

On January 14^th , 2010 there will be a massive protest around the
Parliament building in Sofia under the slogan “Bulgaria is not Big Brother,
2010 is not 1984”.

The protest will unite citizens, political parties and many organizations
around their demand against the latest change in the data retention
legislation.

The draft Law, which was passed on December 22^nd , 2009, contains
provisions, allowing the Ministry of Interior and many other agencies to
execute continuous and uncontrolled monitoring of the behaviour, movement
and other information on any Bulgarian citizen, regardless if he is or is
not guilty of any crime. This preconditions the reversing of the “innocent
until proven guilty” concept, which is a founding concept of the Bulgarian
Constitution as well as of a number of European documents for human rights
protection.

Here are some points of the proposal:

1. The Ministry of Interior will have access through a direct interface to
the data for the calls and the mobile devices positioning of every single
citizen without any legal reason. Court order is required, but the term
“interface” is also introduced and this gives the agencies direct and
untraceable access to the general national database for every one of us,
rendering useless the control, exercised by the Court and the Parliament.

2. Another odd requirement, which is introduced in spite of the Directive,
is that traffic data may be retained for crimes with more than 2 years
imprisonment, which is practically almost any crime. Even odder is the fact
that the Law specifically says that these traffic data can be used in
relation to computer crimes, provided for in the Penal Code, which soon will
include the vague subject of computer piracy.
The other key issue, which we fight against, is the too big and wrongful
extension of the Directive, requiring the insertion of similar matter in the
Bulgarian legislation, thus giving a legal reason to the Ministry of
Interior to enter the general data base any time it wishes.

Of course, there are many other problems, because the legislative framework
on data retention itself violates our rights and it is no surprise that it
is being abolished in many countries. We, in Bulgaria, will continue to work
for this.

Here is an example interface - http://bogomil.info/dr (/Firefox /required).

“Electronic Frontier Bulgaria” is one of the organizations, which initiated
the protest and which is leading the fight against Internet and mobile
phones tapping since 2008.

We are a part of the core of the protest, which is to be held on January
14^th , 2010 at 11 a.m. in front of the Bulgarian Parliament. Our main and
sole demand is a change in the draft Electronic Communications Law, ensuring
the human rights of all users of Internet and telecommunication services in
Bulgaria, including mobile phone talks.

Bogomil “Bogo” Shopov

EFB

bogomil at efb.bg

+ 359 897 615128 (mobile)




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Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov
Electronic Frontier Bulgaria (EFB)

Web: http://efb.bg/index.php?title=Aboutus
Blog: http://bogomil.blogactiv.eu

Phone: +359 897 615128
Jabber: bogo at jabber.minus273.org
E-mail: bogomil at efb.bg
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