oh, oh....I guess Europe is getting more and more in the grasp of your friendly-neighborhood big brother.
Throughout the world, internet interception, monitoring, and potential blockage is beginning to affect more and more people.
You'll have to go to the Wikileaks site to download the .pdf docs. There's one in German and one in English.
check it out, though.
er....that's like next month.July 17, 2009
Summary
These confidential documents detail information on an official program for centralized, real-time, interception of Internet traffic in Switzerland. The interception will start on August 1, 2009.
The documents are those referenced yesterday by the Swiss-German weekly newspaper WOZ
Here's the link to the wikileaks article.
for you German folk, this is what the WOZ article said:
Mit dem Staat ins Internet
Bald schauen die Behörden zu, wenn verdächtige Personen im Internet surfen. Die Massnahme hätte eigentlich geheim bleiben sollen.
Vertrauliche Dokumente, die der WOZ vorliegen, zeigen: Der Bund plant die vollständige Überwachung des Internetverkehrs von verdächtigen Personen. Ab dem 1. August müssen die Internetprovider, also die Anbieter von Internetzugängen, technisch aufrüsten. Künftig sollen sie in der Lage sein, die Internetnutzung ihrer KundInnen unmittelbar an die Behörden zu übertragen
In English, Google translator give's me this:
Confidential documents that the WOZ available, show: The federal government plans to fully monitor the Internet traffic of suspected persons. From 1 August, the Internet provider, ie the provider of Internet access, technical upgrade. In future, they are able to use the Internet to their customers directly to the authorities.
suspected of what, I wonder....??
Apparantly, the state also want's to read discussions in that person's chat rooms or entries in some of the forums he or she may be a member of as well as listening in to VOIP conversations or looking to see if they have a webcam enabled.
use your google translator to translate other content from the Swiss article.
Anyways, the link to the WOZ article can be got from the Wikileaks article or from here:
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