vRRitti.com, providing sentiency

In this connection, the Article 29 Working Party is concerned to find that the directive
does not seem to have been consistently implemented at domestic level.
In particular it appears that it has been interpreted by Member States as if it was leaving open the
decision on its scope – that is, whether the directive was meant to derogate from the
general obligation erase traffic data upon conclusion of the electronic communication or
to mandate retention of all those data providers were already empowered to store for the
purposes laid down in Article 6(2) of directive 2002/58. The latter interpretation is
supported by the WP29 as well as being upheld in the recent judgment by the ECJ in the
Ireland v. Commission case (C-301/06).

- The security measures appear to vary with the providers’ business size;
logical security measures are not always appropriate to take care of the highly sensitive information
contained in traffic data. Importantly, the handover procedures applying to the traffic data
requested by LEAs are found to be considerably inhomogeneous, including a wide gamut
of solutions and different levels of transmission security.

- The action highlights additionally that only a few Member States have provided the
Commission with the requested statistics on the use of traffic data retained under the
directive, and that outsourcing is a widespread practice especially among smaller
operators, the latter casting some doubts as for the effective compliance with data
protection requirements.

Full report: http://www.cbpweb.nl/downloads_int/WP172_1en.pdf   

He fell in love with computers in his teens, became a skilled hacker and formed a group called International Subversives, which broke into US defence department computers. He married at 18, and he and his wife soon had a son, but the marriage broke down and he fought a long custody battle, which, it is said, entrenched his dislike of authority. There are also suggestions he felt some people in the government had been conspiring against him. So we have a neat journalistic picture: computer expert with two decades of hacking experience, hostility to authority, conspiracy theorist. Setting up WikiLeaks in his mid-30s looks like an inevitable move

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/14/julian-assange-whistleblower-wikileaks

See also: http://contentprotection.wordpress.com/?s=wikileaks