15/06/2015
FOSS Patents, "The so-called data protection officer of the EPO signed off on keylogging, hidden cameras"
FOSS Patents reveals the document signed by the Data Protection Officer of the European Patent Officeauthorising the covert surveillance of publicly accessible computers in the Munich ISAR building. Florian Mueller comments as follows:
"There is now conclusive evidence that the EPO has violated basic human rights not only of its staff but even of unsuspecting visitors of one of the EPO's Munich facilities.[...] [T]he request that the "data protection officer" (who is more than 25 years late to serve as a Stasi official) authorized merely refers to freedom-of-speech issues: "a sustained campaign of defamatory and insulting communications against [the EPO's Jack Warner] Vice President Zejlko Topic, other senior managers of the Office and possibly Administrative Council Delegates, in the form of normal post and electronic mail."