Damn, the European Parliament has just approved an EU proposal which will make it compulsory for ISPs to log and save all internet traffic of all their users. This so it can be used by the police or other security services in case they need to backtrack a suspect’s activity on the internet. Apparantely, this is also needed for national security reasons, to prevent September 11 style attacks on the EU.
It’s hard to fully state the stupidity of this decision. Privacy, including online privacy is a great good that should not be offered on the altar of “national security”, especially since I doubt this proposal will makes us the least bit safer. Think about the amount of data that will be gathered if this new directive will be put into practise. Think how difficult it will be to find anything useful in there and the possibilities for mischief. I don’t think everybody should be treated as a criminal because it just might help capturing a real criminal.
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