“Spy agency wants access to all data”

The Security-Information Agency (BIA) is likely to be granted the right to monitor communications of each citizen, and without a court order.

Izvor: Blic

Tuesday, 08.06.2010.

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The Security-Information Agency (BIA) is likely to be granted the right to monitor communications of each citizen, and without a court order. This means that the agency would have access to data that shows parties to phone or email communication, its date, length and location. “Spy agency wants access to all data” If Serbian MPs approve a new law on electronic communications, writes Belgrade daily Blic, all it will take for BIA to collect this data will be an order of the agency's director. The draft law, which this week entered parliamentary procedure, does not limit this right with a single provision, says the article. In this way, the agency that monitors the data will also be in charge of controlling the process – and MPs do not seem to mind. Although what the newspaper describes as “expert public” has fiercely criticized the draft for some time, members of the Serbian parliament did not voice many objections to the proposed law during the debate thus far. Public Information Trustee Rodoljub Sabic has for months been warning that law would curtail basic human rights, and violate the Constitution. When the Ministry of Telecommunications worked on the draft, the daily reports, it was BIA that lent its hand in writing the proposal. Sabic believes that the data BIA wants to access “sometimes speak at least as much as the actual content of a phone conversation or an email”. The final draft of the law was “to all intents and purposes inaccessible to the public”, he said, and added that it was “only published on the ministry's website five days ago”. “It's clear that some solutions are unclear, controversial and can have a violation of the Constitution and legally guaranteed human rights as its consequence,” Sabic concluded.

“Spy agency wants access to all data”

If Serbian MPs approve a new law on electronic communications, writes Belgrade daily Blic, all it will take for BIA to collect this data will be an order of the agency's director.

The draft law, which this week entered parliamentary procedure, does not limit this right with a single provision, says the article.

In this way, the agency that monitors the data will also be in charge of controlling the process – and MPs do not seem to mind.

Although what the newspaper describes as “expert public” has fiercely criticized the draft for some time, members of the Serbian parliament did not voice many objections to the proposed law during the debate thus far.

Public Information Trustee Rodoljub Šabić has for months been warning that law would curtail basic human rights, and violate the Constitution.

When the Ministry of Telecommunications worked on the draft, the daily reports, it was BIA that lent its hand in writing the proposal.

Šabić believes that the data BIA wants to access “sometimes speak at least as much as the actual content of a phone conversation or an email”.

The final draft of the law was “to all intents and purposes inaccessible to the public”, he said, and added that it was “only published on the ministry's website five days ago”.

“It's clear that some solutions are unclear, controversial and can have a violation of the Constitution and legally guaranteed human rights as its consequence,” Šabić concluded.

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