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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."

6 of 325 comments (clear)

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

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

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

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

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

    finally, a real backup solution for my personal data

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

    google desktop search, obviously.