Do you support Data Retention as a way to fight "terrorists"?

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http://www.stopdataretention.com/

The European ministers of Justice and the European Commission want to keep all telephone and internet traffic data of all 450 million Europeans. If you are concerned about this plan, please sign the petition.

What's wrong with data retention? The proposal to retain traffic data will reveal who has been calling and e-mailing whom, what websites people have visited and even where they were with their mobile phones. Telephone companies and internet services providers would be ordered to store all traffic data of their customers. Police and intelligence agencies in Europe would be granted access the traffic data. Various, competing proposals in Brussels mention retention periods from 6 months up to four years.

Data retention is an invasive tool that interferes with the private lives of all 450 million people in the European Union. Data retention is a policy that expands powers of surveillance in an unprecedented manner. It simultaneously revokes many of the safeguards in European human rights instruments, such as the Data Protection Directives and the European Convention on Human Rights.

Data retention means that governments may interfere with your private life and private communications regardless if you are suspected of a crime or not.

Data retention is not a solution to terrorism and crime!
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Well i gues Bushes bullshit is coming to Europe...

 

[bomby]

I don't think these people know how much internet traffic there really is per day. Answer: A lot. How they are going to store all that information and at what cost?

 

[lykorn]

no, its just ridiculous - Terrorists use more intelligent ways to communicate

a few more years with the current ministers of the interior (Otto Schily in Germany for example) and i'll leave the country

in germany, some people want to controll and record every mobile phone call, including the position where you called from...
yes...welcom to the brave new world of 1984...

i fight everything that regards biometry and "security"-controll with tooth and nails....

[OffTopic]question, what is correct ?
to fight sth tooth and nails - or
to fight sth with tooth and nails ???
iam not quite sure... :wink2:
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -- James Madison

@ lykorn

in germany, some people want to controll and record every mobile phone call, including the position where you called from...

Same here, in Slovenia. The position is already beiing stored.

 

[YuiYuiMai]

Data retention is very tricky subject because as a pirate i would hate to see authorities with a copy of my finger prints all over the latest movie but as a civilian in a densely packed city with a high probability of terrorism i would like to give cops the tools to apprehend the #%#% terrorists.

Decision decision i think it is best if there is a compromise like before the cops can even look at the records they must have specific person or groups of people that they want to look look up and it must b approve by a judge. The most important thing is that it must not be easily bypassed like what president bush in the name of national security.

 

[zimp123]

iffy

would be helpful but... not my info. granted the only problem i reeaally have is with p2p use. can monitor...just not my surfing