Europol Describes Data Retention Desires

freakyboff writes "Found this on cryptome.org - It's a confidential document from Europol, basically a wish list of all data that they would like people to keep. Many things that violate peoples privacy are in the minimum requirements, such as caller line identification and assigned IP for dial-up Internet access; e-mail and ftp server logs; and companies running web servers should keep information on what information users put on their servers." Statewatch is a good source for more information. I find it odd that Europe is moving from a position of protecting a great deal of data with fairly strong laws to requiring that telecommunications companies store data on their customers for as long as seven years so that law enforcement can go data-mining - skipping the intermediate step of making it optional.

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This certainly seems like the US strong-arming the EU to pass these measures. After they get passed in the EU it is much easier to get them passed in the USA.

George Bush, President of the USA, sent this demand -- among many others -- to the EU on October 16, 2001:

Revise draft privacy directives that call for mandatory destruction to permit the retention of critical data for a reasonable period.