The regulation of the Internet is a seldom phenomenon in the Western European states. According to the data for 2015, only one state of the 34 states of the region restricted access to the Internet, jurist of the European People’s Party of Moldova Iulian Rusu said in the public debate “Real and nonexistent dangers to the basic human rights generated by the government’s intention to modify information technology regulations” that was staged by IPN News Agency and Radio Moldova.
According to the jurist, there are situations when the European Court of Human Rights analyzed attentively the similar regulations and classed these as contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights. The restricting of the Internet access and the introduction of penalties for service providers could generate multiple questions.
“Nobody denies the necessity of special regulations for offenses committed against minors. It is our duty to protect the young generation, but I want to warn you that we do not speak only about such offenses. The bill also refers to such crimes as violation of copyright, computer crimes and those related to terrorism,” stated Iulian Rusu.
The jurist considers that the bill to amend and supplement the legislation to ensure information security and combat cybercrime includes some dangerous ‘windows” that generate concern.
Iulian Rusu noted that the fate of the materials that were obtained according to the new provisions and are not related to the criminal case within which they were collected remains unclear. These are materials extracted from different communication means, including email. “How are these materials that inevitably became accessible to the prosecution bodies classed when the reason for talking special investigation measures was related not to these materials, but to another, different case?” he asked.
The representative of the European People’s Party of Moldova said this bill should have been debated in a much broader format because it holds great interest. All the questions that appeared about this bill will be formulated as proposals for amending tit and will be discussed publicly, using all the means, including the parliamentary platform.
The April 4 debate is the 52nd of the series of debates “Developing political culture by public debates” that are organized with the support of the German Foundation “Hanns Seidel”.
