In the EU? Setting a 'retain that data' rule? Better comply with e-Privacy EU countries that set their own national data retention laws must ensure those rules are in line with the EU's Privacy and Electronic Communications (e-Privacy) Directive, according to a new legal opinion. The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled last April that specific EU rules on data retention by telecoms providers, set …
Good job we are on track to leave the EU and safely ignore those pesky laws. Can't have anything interfering with our surveillance state now can we, everyone knows we need to retain everything forever to protect the kiddies.
Wonder how this will go down considering the French & UK authorities seem to be ready to step up monitoring and retaining data since it worked so well in stopping the latest atrocities.
Maybe they should look at what they can do with the data they already have, so that it is actually useful, as opposed to getting even more data and making the outlook even more foggy.
What is the point of having all the tell-tales for an attack if they then put 2 and 2 together and come up with 5?
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>>It's about the way the State can exercise even more totalitarian control over millions of people, without them realising they've been hoodwinked by their own leaders.<<
The thing that bothers me is they really do seem to think they've fooled us !
One of the 38 degrees lobbyists who was working on the old TTIP thingy mentioned that the MPs on the committee were trying to make out that 38 degrees had no right to be asking questions and that they should just go away and stop worrying their pretty little heads.
We did "Civics" at school, and that had a lot to say about the theories behind representative democracy .... and THIS IS NOT IT !!
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