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Reporters Without Borders
Spain
Source: http://rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=7143
Or: http://rsf.fr/print.php3?id_article=7143
19.06.2003
The lower house of the Spanish parliament passed the LSSICE "Internet law," to fight cybercrime and terrorism via the Internet, on 27 June 2002. Devised by the science and technology ministry, it obliges ISPs to retain traffic logs of their customers for at least a year. An opposition amendment bars police or intelligence officials from using such data without court permission. But how such data retention will work in practice has not been spelled out and no official body has been given authority to shut down websites considered to have "undermined" a list of social values.
Freedom of expression is upheld in the Constitution, whose article 20 guarantees the right to "freely send or receive truthful information by any medium of communication" and whose article 18.3 protects confidentiality of postal, telegraphic and phone messages "except when there is a court order." This has led privacy campaigners and prominent lawyers to denounce the new law as unconstitutional.
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* The national data protection agency: http://www.agenciaprotecciondatos.org/
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