ENFOPOL

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ENFOPOL (the abbreviation stands for Enfopol Enfo rcement Pol ice ) is the name of a series of working papers for the interception of telecommunications within the European Union . The Enfopol papers are based on the work of a working group of the FBI and are drawn up by working group K4 "Police Cooperation". They were passed by the European Parliament on May 3, 1999 .

Council working group

ENFOPOL is also the name of a working group of the EU Council of Ministers that develops new proposals for the surveillance of telecommunications traffic and for restrictions on the secrecy of telecommunications and submits them to the EU interior and justice ministries. The ENFOPOL policy paper largely corresponds to the German Telecommunications Surveillance Ordinance (TKÜV) and provides for eavesdropping on satellite communications , the Internet, paging services, mobile and landline telephones and mobile phone cards. A simple court order in the state of the eavesdropping office should be sufficient to eavesdrop in the entire area of ​​the ENFOPOL contracting states. With additional bilateral agreements, requests would be automated and feasible within a few seconds.

Here, too, the background is a Europe-wide harmonization of police practice in the area of ​​surveillance of the newer technologies, in particular ISDN via GPRS, UMTS, TETRA up to e-mail or message services, even if such a council resolution for the member states is still due to national surveillance regulations is not legally binding, especially since considerable data protection and constitutional concerns are being expressed everywhere . Federal data protection officer Joachim Jacob warned in an activity report that the retention of all personal data from electronic communication would obviously be disproportionate and would create unreasonable monitoring pressure on individuals.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Rötzer: Enfopol is flourishing. In: Telepolis. Heise , June 26, 2001, archived from the original on October 15, 2012 ; accessed on December 1, 2014 .
  2. ^ Stefan Krempl: Resistance to the new Enfopol surveillance plans. In: Telepolis. Heise , May 23, 2001, accessed December 1, 2014 .

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