EU Approves Data Retention

submanifold writes "The EU have ratified rules that will force ISP's and other telecommunication companies to retain data for two years. This data includes the time, date and locations of both mobile and landline calls (as well as whether or not they were answered) along with logs of internet activity and email. Apparently the content itself would not be accessible, merely the data concerning it. However, despite being touted as an anti-terrorist measure, the record industry has already admitted interest in aquiring such data."

Comments

Re:I am going to be rich!

[burnetd]

I'm off to patent the use of random RIAA artist names, and MPAA movie names in email signatures.

Re:This story belongs in "Your Rights Online"

[Volanin]

With this amount of information to be stored?
You might change your mind after a few months...

Exemptions for individuals

[adnonsense]

European individuals can gain exemptions from having their data retentioned if they sign a waiver giving away all rights to their first-born to the audio-video retail industry.

Those without children may instead put their signature at the bottom of a blank terrorist confession sheet and mail it to their local secret service. This will also automatically enter them into a free prize draw with many chances to win free flights to a European location of the CIA's choice.

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I for one welcome our new data-retentive overlords

Re:two years?

[wheany]

Stay a while. STAY FOREVER!

Destroy him, my robots!

Re:Volumes of Data

[KiloByte]

Wrong. No matter what marketing departments of disk manufacturers say, a kilobyte is still 1024 bytes.

Any attempts to make my /. nick ugly will be punished with extreme prejudice.