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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."

5 of 325 comments (clear)

  1. 1st by NevermindPhreak · · Score: -1, Troll

    my first, first. gotta wait 20 seconds though. :-P

  2. 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.

    --
    University of Washington

    Student

  3. In other news by wannabgeek · · Score: -1, Troll

    Donald Rumsfeld joined the EU as the God-in-charge of defence

    --
    I'm much more funny, interesting and insightful than the moderators think
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  5. Tired of Illegals? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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