19 October 1998: NRC Handelsbad has replaced the full updated report with the shorter EuroParl summary. See the full report at:

> http://jya.com/stoa-atpc-so.htm (101K)

19 October 1998

M-J Klaver notes that EuroParl now offers the executive summary of the updated ATPC report at its Web site:

> http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg4/stoa/en/publi/166499/execsum.htm

The summary is about one-half the length of the full updated report available at the NRC site below.

18 October 1998

    Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 11:26:38 +0200
    To: jya@pipeline.com
    From: Marie-Jose Klaver <klaver@nrc.nl>
    Subject: Second report An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control

    I'm a Dutch journalist, working for NRC Handelsblad, one of the major
    newspapers in the Netherlands. I've been reporting about the STOA report An
    Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control since last February.

    A second report came out last month. I got a copy a few days ago from the
    Omega Foundation and had an article about it in NRC Handelsblad today. This
    second report has interesting information about the so called EU-FBI global
    surveillance plan. According to a secret memorandum the EU countries have
    agreed with the FBI to intercept all European datacommunication. To do this
    some EU countries like Holland and Germany changed their laws to make broad
    wiretapping and interception of Internet and other datacommunication
    possible. Germany changed its constitution in the beginning of this year
    and in Holland a law was made and accepted by both chambers of the
    Parliament that obliges all firms with computer and communication networks
    (providers, telco's, newspapers etc.) to make their systems tappable.

    You can read the second report at:

    http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Echelon/stoa2sept1998.html

    Marie-Jose Klaver

    NRC Handelsblad

    http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Echelon