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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. EU 1984? by AndreySeven · · Score: 0, Troll
    It seems the EU is becoming less and less appealing...

    I hope that countries look at these trends before clamoring to join the EU for purely economic reasons.

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    University of Washington

    Student