Date:         Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:54:06 +0100
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From:         Erich M <erich.moechel@ORF.AT>
Organization: futurezone.orf.at
Subject:      BC-list members personal data processing legal notice
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Dear BC-list members,

[This is a legal notice in compliance with European Data Protection laws and
presumably my last posting here. Please refrain from responding  to the list
to avoid an off-topic string. If anybody should want to know more details pls
use the adress in the *reply to* field and the pgp key below]

As BC-list admins surely do know, the complete list archive was downloaded a
few weeks ago.

Data are currently being indexed and structured to be matched with a variety
of other data sets. [see research project outlook below]

Whereas
- - the European Data Protection Directive and harmonized Austrian law also
cover the the privacy rights of Non-EU citizens
- - and considering the fact that BC-list archive contains an amount of personal
information on list members [clear names, e-mail addresses, fone numbers
etc.]
- - and that those data will be processed, kept available for a certain period
of time and be published in parts

Considering all that
a legal notice containing a short description of the project was filed at the
Austrian Data Protection Register at the Federal Chancellor's office last
week. This is a routine process and apparently there are no restrictions to
the first phase of the project.

If any restrictions should apply to upcoming phases, everbody whose personal
data are being processed may file a request at the Federal Chancellor's
Office

Information in English
http://www.bka.gv.at/datenschutz/indexe.htm

Project working title and scope
"The roles of state security agencies, law enforcement and industries in the
global standardization of network-based surveillance and tracking systems"
Biometrics was chosen to begin with for the main reason of high data
availability and excellent documentation.

Datamining is being done by an independent group of engineers. All raw data no
longer needed for the process will be moved to a "deleted record file."
Interim results will be published during the upcoming months. The whole
process is scheduled to last for 3,5 years.

As has been done during the "proof of concept" phase raw data and results will
be offered to the Institute of Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy
of Sciences for further research.

Http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ita/welcome.htm

BC-Listmembers who want to request his/her personal data be excluded from the
process may do so by contacting a local data protection or civil liberties
NGO. All Organizations will be informed in time

Global List
http://www.gilc.org/about/members.html
List of European NGOs

http://www.edri.org

Recommended for US citizens: the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center
for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the
Electronic Privacy Information Center.

For any requests listmembers might consider necessary this pgp key could be
useful. Pls abstain from e-mailing to my business address as your e-mail will
be processed in a Windows network evironment.
key
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBFCCFD77

Tnx a lot for your patience
sincerely yours
Erich Moechel

news editor http://futurezone.ORF.at
Any opinions expressed in this e-mail reflect the author's personal views 
only.
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