KSPI Demands Review of RATEL Regulation
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The Coalition for Free Access to Information asked the National Telecommunications Agency (RATEL) to review the contents of the Regulation that defines the new activities for internet service providers (ISPs) in Serbia who will be now obligated to keep the data on the traffic of their users and present it to the competent authorities.
While it recognizes the state`s legitimate right to undertake actions of surveillance over the people suspected of criminal offences, the Coalition believes that RATEL`s Regulation has to offer the obligations that state authorities will have towards ISPs and telecommunications operators in order to prevent abuses of surveillance of internet communications. - The lack of clear rules opens the possibility to officials to be able, just showing a badge and credentials, to violate the rights of privacy of communications. There is also the issue of possible abuses of the said equipment by the ISPs themselves – comments the Coalition for Free Access to Information. The Coalition demands from RATEL to inform the public about the steps it took to enable the dialogue on this document with all interested parties (the Coalition itself, ISP services users and others). It also recommends to the Narodna Skupština (the Parliament) to urgently adopt the Law on Protection of Personal Data, which is in line with the Council of Europe privacy protection standards, the Law on Classification of Information and the changes in the Law on Free Access to Information that the Coalition presented to the Skupština in December last year, backed by the signatures of 72,000 citizens. |
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