Depressing as this is

Depressing as this is

Posted Dec 15, 2005 16:43 UTC (Thu) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: Depressing as this is by epeeist
Parent article: EU adopts data retention

The irony about all of this is that data collected by corporates can't be just sold to anyone like in the US. In europe citizen's do own have rights over data about themselves. The difference here is that it wasn't required to be collected or stored before this (that's why it's a data retention directive).

So now the corporates are required to store this info for two years and law enforcement can get at it, but no-one else. Great. I wonder if all the member countries will actually implement this, that's always the other half of the battle...

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