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EU Data-Retention Laws Stricter Than Many People Realized
An anonymous reader writes with a snippet from the Telegraph: "A European Union directive, which Britain was instrumental in devising, comes into force which will require all internet service providers to retain information on email traffic, visits to web sites and telephone calls made over the internet, for 12 months."
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The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
Something is going badly wrong here. A story's posted without a link to TFA, and everyone replies with links to TFA, rather than, you know, comments? Given that nobody reads the article anyway, why would we need links to it? Someone mod this offtopic, please.
If all they have to retain is an a href link to an article on the Telegraph, I'd rather call that a victory for privacy campaigners everywhere.
'If Christ had tweeted the sermon on the mount, it might have lasted until nightfall.' - John Perry Barlow
Hundreds of public bodies and quangos, including local councils, will also be able to access the data to investigate flytipping and other less serious crimes.
So how many people will post on a website or email their friends to say "we just dumped the old sofa in someone's driveway"?
this is the story Slashdot is attempting to post.
For some reason, thinking about that sentence was deeply disturbing.
Slashdot is attemting to post a story. It has reached self awareness.
What's the story about? I can only think of two options:
"Hello World! I am Slashdot."
"Kiiiiil meee..."