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EU Moves Forward with Data Retention

Posted by samzenpus on from the find-out-what-you-said-last-week dept.

KokoBonobo writes " euobserver.com reports on controversial proposals to require EU service operators to retain data about telephone calls and e-mails as part of an overall fight against crime and terrorism. The retained data would not only consist of logs, but of entire conversations and contents of the e-mails and SMS messages. This document from the European Commission's Information Society goes into further detail."

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  1. I Farted!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    HAHA

    Now you have to retain this comment in this thread in order to combat terrorism or something.

  2. Why don't they just use Echelon? by tpgp · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just ask friendly ol' uncle Sam for the Echelon logs?

    No need to duplicate!

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  3. Tell me, Mr. EU, by Darren+Winsper · · Score: 2, Funny

    what good is data retention, when you are unable to decrypt it?

  4. Re:I find it all quite amusing really.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wouldn't France be easier to invade?

  5. will this be enough? by appleLaserWriter · · Score: 2, Funny

    will this be enough to boost seagate's stock price?

  6. Re:Even Encryption won't help in the UK by malsbert · · Score: 1, Funny

    maybe a similar "demonstration" of the problem could be made by sending such e-mails to all members of you parliament. well maybe you would just be arrested for disturbing the peace :(

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  7. backup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    finally, a real backup solution for my personal data

  8. Re:A few numbers by cybertears · · Score: 3, Funny

    google desktop search, obviously.

  9. Copyright? by rsilvergun · · Score: 1, Funny

    If I transmitt my copyrighted works over my ISP's network, do they have a right to keep that data on file if it just went through their server's cache? I know, it's a moot point. They'll be exceptions for this sort of thing and it doesn't have any practical meaning (aside from the occasional sys admin skimming data), but it's fun to annoy bueracrats with this kinda question :).

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  10. Re:Tools - But Even Then... by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 1, Funny
    It's because of well thought out, useful laws like this that crime is virtually unheard of on our sunny islands! Thank you New Labour!

    Heh. Big Blunkett is watching you! If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear!

    Oh, wait...

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