EU Wants Air Passenger Data Collected

An anonymous reader sends news of the EU following in the footsteps of the US in that they are contemplating requiring all 27 member states to collect data on airline passengers and to retain it for up to 13 years. No centralized database would be created; instead states would be encouraged to store and to share their own data as needed. All states would have to pass enabling laws before the measure could come into effect. The rules would not apply to flights entirely within the EU. The proposal is part of an anti-terrorism package that also includes tighter laws to control hate speech and bomb-making instructions.

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Re:I Can See This Leading to Trouble

[Hognoxious]

How exactly does one define 'hate speech', and separate it from freedom of speech

If it's targetted at muslims, it's hate speech; if it's muslims advocating slaughter of anyone else, it's free speech.

Re:Yes but...

[Anonymous Coward]

(To your credit, you finally kicked them to the curb where they belong. Hillary (or whoever the Democrats end up nominating...but she's most likely) needs to join them there.)

You panty-waisted bedwetter, take your fuking "needs" language and push it all the way back up your asshole where you pulled it out of. You wimpshits are too goddamned chicken shit to roar out, "I believe should " Instead, you have to couch it in pusillanimous, mealy-mouthed language like " needs to " your narrow-minded world view so humbly wants them to do. Quit projecting your own infantile "needs" onto everyone else as though A), they actually feel such a "need" and B) it's their need and not your own.

In short, buy some balls (Hillary already has more than all you limp dicks collectively own) and take responsibility for what you want to make happen, but are too lily-livered to make happen on your own.