From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 95 10:42:24 PDT
To: "Kari Laine" <buster@klaine.pp.fi>
Subject: Re: EU Data Protection
Message-ID: <199508041742.NAA21367@panix.com>
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At 04:43 PM 8/4/95 +0002, Kari Laine wrote:

>Excuse me - what the f**k is this?  Does it bear some truth in it
>or is it just a bad joke? If it is not a joke where to get the damn
>text - thanks. Sorry for the language but this does  sound just
>the thing I have heard some rumours of and which certainly
>would result in banning strong crypto.


http://snyside.sunnyside.com/cpsr/privacy/privacy_international/internationa
l_laws/ec_data_protection_directive_1995.txt

Has the preliminary text.  The final won't be up for a while but won't be
that different.  Also try:

http://www.open.gov.uk/dpr/dprhome.htm

The UK Data Protection Registrar's home page.  They've been trying to
control electronically stored records since 1984.

DCF