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Police Want Fast Track To Get At Your Private Data

Posted by timothy on from the if-you-have-nothing-to-hide dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this story on CNET, police again are pushing for new laws requiring ISPs and webmail providers to store users' private data for five years and also want a new electronic way of speeding up subpoenas and search warrants via police-only encrypted portals at all ISPs and webmail providers."

2 of 301 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Bore them to death by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, they can look at my data. It will bore them to death.

    They'll find my four trillion digits of pi boring until they realize that every trillionth digit is the start of a datetime stamp followed by geographic coordinates indicating when and where I'm going to kill next. How many people have to die before they realize that it's GMT with no adjustments for daylight savings!?

    Sincerely,

    - Pi Killer

    --
    My work here is dung.
  2. Re:Because they can?! by _merlin · · Score: 5, Funny

    That sounds like the kind of thing an enemy of Freedom(TM) would say. I think we need to fast-track the retrieval of headkase's personal information, so we can find something that could be construed as evidence of support for terrorism and put him away before he robs us of our lifesytle.

    You see, it's the Freedom(TM) to agree with whoever is currently top dog - not freedom to make your own decisions. (Kind of like RMS GNU/Freedom, really.)