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EU adopts data retention
EU adopts data retention
Posted Dec 14, 2005 18:24 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)Parent article: EU adopts data retention
Does this mean that we can now find out exactly who memebers of EU Parliament talk to? And Microsoft employees? And media company representatives? This seems like the ideal tool to make any government look to the public like a criminal conspiracy. The canonical Big Brother scenario involves only the ministry of truth being able to track people. If just about anyone can track just about anyone, it's a very different, and probably completely untenable, situation.
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EU adopts data retention
Posted Dec 14, 2005 18:40 UTC (Wed) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]
Ho, ho, you think the common man is going to have access to this data? No, only the government and "legitimate business interests" will have access to it, I'm very sure of that. This isn't David Brin's "The Transparent Society," this is 1984.
-Rob
EU adopts data retention
Posted Dec 14, 2005 22:24 UTC (Wed) by jimbo (subscriber, #6689) [Link]
Certainly not! That's an extremely sensitive issue of notional security!!