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Maybe this group should forward their findings onto the relevant data protection agency in the Netherlands ... it would be interesting to see what happened.
(answer: nothing, these agencies exist to suck money and do nothing)

The data protection agency in the Netherlands has been very busy trying to stop european mandatory "telecommunication traffic data retention", it also ensured the dutch RIAA alike knew it could never share with its overseas counterparts information of people it suspected of trading files online to which it asumes its members own the copyrights. It critisized the sending of passenger data to the US and the ease with which the decision to do so was made from the beginning. Finaly after some initial mixup in which a guy less qualified then a paperclip got the job it provided the new head of the european data protection agency becouse people realised that having someone who has experiance would not be a bad idea after all ....

All this while sucking very, very little money (public or otherwise). Unlike other goverment scooped together groups like the "discrimination contactpoint" (which discriminates(dutch)).

Their site mentions the cybercrime treaty, many police and court record systems, patient records, TTP`s, bosses snooping on employees, customer data on the internet, biometrics, the selling of unlisted phonenumbers to direct marketeers and even more. but since I only rember a succes in the cases I mentioned (and the unlisted number one) I sugest you try to find out how much succes they had in the other cases yourself.

Re:Question... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-28 20:39 · Score: 0 · on Librarian of Congress Posts DMCA Exemptions

Actually something anologous is happening in the Netherlands. The Book 'Mein Kamp' from Hitler is not translated to dutch, because the dutch state has the translation rights and does not translate it themselves, because they don't want the book to be translated in dutch.

(story in dutch here).

Re:Go XS4ALL! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-07 20:37 · Score: 0 · on Dutch Court Rules That Linking Is Legal In Scientology Case

Not only where they on of the first public internet providers, they where one of the first to comply with the tapping requirements to. Along with the other kpn owned ips`s.

Ofcourse the reasoning for both those complying and refusing to comply with the tapping legislation where purely financial... but it just goes to show that XS4ALL may run the best forum/opinion paper I know about privacy and social mathers on the net (includes comentary on the "toetjesterrorist", the campina desert extorionist, no laughing mather. The FBI got the name and address out of an american ISP which claimed to never ever give out these details) But they are just as scared as the rest to get in financial trouble like its new owner, the "dutch AT&T" kpn. (as in kpnqwest)

Sure "newszilla" (Bigest usenet server in the world?) is great for those in need for p0rn (as where their peercache experiments) but maintenance could be better (they where running a counter-strike 4.0 server for a year, which got kinda boring after beta 6.0 .... so much for "great game servers") They do have a nice set of mirrors though... Lots of big words from a now big isp, some them (deeplinking, freedom of speech) they live up to, but the godsend for those who care about privacy they are not.

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