TdC
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The European parliament voted "yes" to the saving of telecommunications and internet data. As of july 2007 all EU countries must save phone, email and internet communications for a minimum of 6, maximum 24 months. This includes locational data from mobile phones.
Only header data will be saved, not content aparantly. This more or less means that they will be able to see who emailed who, but not what was written. Though not explicitly mentioned, it's a good guess that they're also going to keep track of what webpages people visit. The data will be used to "help prevent serious crimes" I believe, amongst other things.
Now anybody with half a brain will know that, at least on the internet, it's extremely easy to get around this if you can be bothered. I'm reasonably sure that this measure is to watch the 99.98 percent of the population who aren't hardened criminals and terrorists. I certainly hope that when Joe Average gets pulled over for speeding the nice policeman can pull up a list of the websites he's been visiting recently to check he's not a terrorist paedofile hippy radical anti-globalist starbucks hater who regularly emails his pal Osama @ thisisntaterroristhideout.org.</sarcasm> Roll on 1984!
Now I find this a hard argument: on the one hand I don't really care that others can see how much porn I surf, or that my mobile tells the man where I am at all times. The latter may even come in handy at some point tbh. On the other hand for this measure to be effective at all the data will have to be analized with minimal delay or it won't be useful for it's intended purpose at all. Tbh they may as well put a camera in my house to keep watch in case I suddenly develop an incling to make home made explosives. After all, they watch me in the street and on the internet as well :/
Only header data will be saved, not content aparantly. This more or less means that they will be able to see who emailed who, but not what was written. Though not explicitly mentioned, it's a good guess that they're also going to keep track of what webpages people visit. The data will be used to "help prevent serious crimes" I believe, amongst other things.
Now anybody with half a brain will know that, at least on the internet, it's extremely easy to get around this if you can be bothered. I'm reasonably sure that this measure is to watch the 99.98 percent of the population who aren't hardened criminals and terrorists. I certainly hope that when Joe Average gets pulled over for speeding the nice policeman can pull up a list of the websites he's been visiting recently to check he's not a terrorist paedofile hippy radical anti-globalist starbucks hater who regularly emails his pal Osama @ thisisntaterroristhideout.org.</sarcasm> Roll on 1984!
Now I find this a hard argument: on the one hand I don't really care that others can see how much porn I surf, or that my mobile tells the man where I am at all times. The latter may even come in handy at some point tbh. On the other hand for this measure to be effective at all the data will have to be analized with minimal delay or it won't be useful for it's intended purpose at all. Tbh they may as well put a camera in my house to keep watch in case I suddenly develop an incling to make home made explosives. After all, they watch me in the street and on the internet as well :/
