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              | Date: 2002-02-18 
 
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 Die nicht nur aus dem ECHELON-Ausschuss bekannte EU-Abgeordnete Ilka
 Schröder war in Japan. Wie es aussieht hatte sie dort volles Programm.
 
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 Anti-ECHELON meetings ended successfully. Ilka Schroeder gave very
 excellent presentation for many Japanese audiences.
 
 Ilka Schoeder, a member of EU Parliament and was a member of ECHELON
 Committee of EU Parliament, was invited to Japan for anti ECHELON
 meetings ogganized by Japanese privacy, civil liberty and human rights
 groups.
 
 Ilka gave key note speeches in four meetings against ECHELON in Japan.
 
 On 15th Feb., two meetings were held.
 
 First meeting was held at the Diet organized by core members of opposition
 parties which has been proposing the repeal bill of the wiretapping law in
 Japan in each session of the Diet. The meeting had about 70 audiences.
 
 Second meeting was held at the Bar Association of Japan. This is a small
 meeting ogrnized by the BAJ that is a official organization of lawyers in
 Japan. Participants are mainly interested in civil liberty and human rights.
 After the speech by Ilka, The participants discussed broad issues not only
 ECHELON but also Cyber Crime Convention issues.
 
 On 16th., Feb, two more meetings were held.
 
 Third meeting was public one held at Kyobashi Plaza,a public meeting place
 in down town Tokyo, organized by the Meeting Preparation Committee
 composed of several privacy groups, civil liberty groups and human rights
 groups. She criticized the Echelon Report by EU committee because of its
 insufficient concerning of personal privacy and promotion for INFOPOL. She
 insisted on abolish of secret intelligent organizations that is the only one
 solution for protecting privacy and liberty of people and social movements. In
 the meeting, Bunmei Satou, journalist and activist against Japanese
 surveillance system, and Yuichi Kaido, a lawyer for human rightsm gave
 speechs. The meeting has 200 audiences.
 
 The final meeting was also public one held at Yokohama Civic Empowerment
 Center in Kanagawa District organized by loal community activists groups of
 anti militarism, anti wiretapping law, anti Japanese fascism system and so
 on. Also in this meeting, Toshi Ogura gave an introductory speech about
 ECHELON isseus. The meeting has 70 audiences.
 
 The speech by Ilka gave very important points of view for the ECHELON
 Report. First she criticized that the report has only the commercial interest
 that promote and strengthen national security system using secret low
 enforcement or military institutions. Second she insisted on abolishing all of
 secret intelligent ogranizations. Third she proposed several ways for
 protecting privacy such as promoting open source software, using
 cryptography, and so on.
 
 For more information abot the meeting and other isseus in Japan, please
 contact to NaST
 
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 Relayed by Toshi Ogura Networkers against Surveillance Taskforce (NaST)
 priv-ec@jca.apc.org
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 edited by Harkank
 published on: 2002-02-18
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