Άρθρο του BBC σχετικά με την παρακολούθηση σε διάφορες χώρες της Ευρώπης, μεταξύ αυτών και της Ελλάδας (αν πάτε στο αρχικό άρθρο, προσπαθείστε να μη γελάσετε με την εικόνα του Καραμανλή. Μα μας κάνουν διεθνώς ρεζίλι με τέτοιες βλακόφατσες). Σχετικά με την Ελλάδα το άρθρο αναφέρει τα ακόλουθα :

In the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics, I met a man who was furious about the appearance of 350 cameras in the capital as part of a $1.5bn security programme to protect athletes and spectators.

“If I choose to have an affair with a woman who is not my wife, that is my fundamental human right, and I should be protected from being caught on camera,” he said.

The man was walking in the suburb of Nikaia, where the local left-wing mayor, who disapproved of surveillance, had ordered workmen to daub black paint over the lenses.

That cameo encapsulates the desire of most Greeks to resist state attempts to spy on them and helps explain why Greece leads the European Union and the rest of the world in privacy protection for its citizens. (σ.b. να επιτέλους και μια καλή πρωτιά που έχουμε…)

The other important contributory factor is the strength and moral independence of the nation’s Data Protection Authority, which is resolute in its determination to uphold the following principles enshrined in the Greek constitution:

• Every person’s home is a sanctuary
• he private and family life of the individual is inviolable
• Secrecy of letters and all other forms of free correspondence or communication shall be absolutely inviolable

The authority has real teeth. In December 2006 it fined mobile phone company Vodafone 76m euros for bugging more than 100 top Greek officials, including Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, around the time of the Olympics.Vodafone’s network planning manager in Greece, Costas Tsalikides, was found hanged not long after he informed his superiors he had discovered that spying software had been secretly installed in the company’s system.Mr Tsalikides family has always suspected he was murdered.

Since January 18, 2008, the case has been officially closed. Vodafone Greece will appeal against the fine and has co-operated fully with all relevant authorities since the beginning of the case.

The Data Protection Authority has also frustrated the efforts of the Conservative government to extract some value from the Olympic security system.

When a left-wing group called Revolutionary Struggle fired a rocket into the office of the US ambassador in Athens, there was no video record because the security cameras were switched off.

The authority refused to allow the cameras to be used for anything other than traffic control.

In November 2007, a state prosecutor told the police that they would be allowed to use footage from the surveillance system to prosecute demonstrators who turned violent.

The new rules were first applied during the annual 17 November march to commemorate the dozens of students killed in 1973 when tanks of the right wing colonels’ junta crushed an uprising at Athens Polytechnic.

“So many years after the dictatorship, Greece is very sensitive in the area of freedoms,” said Panos Garganos, who was marching for the 33rd year in succession.

The use of the cameras to monitor the demonstration led to the resignation of the head of the Data Protection Authority.

Despite the fact that Greece has such strong constitutional protection against state-sponsored spying, some of my contacts refuse to have sensitive conversations on either land lines or mobile phones, because they assume that someone is listening.

MALCOLM BRABANT

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Το όνομα του δημοσιογράφου Malcolm Brabant (youtube profile) μπορεί να μη σας λέει κάτι, αλλά είναι ο κύριος ο οποίος είχε τραβήξει το video με την κα Μαργαρίτη και στο οποίο δόθηκε έκταση μέσα από τα blogs, χωρίς φυσικά να γνωρίζουμε δημοσιογραφία (μας συγχωρείτε πάρα πολύ “κ” δημοσιογράφοι) και χωρίς επίσης να πληρωνόμαστε για αυτό (και ίσως για τον τελευταίο λόγο να βγαίνουν και τέτοιες ειδήσεις μέσα από τα blogs).

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