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2001-11-26
I came by something rather disturbing in Saturday’s newspaper — in a way, it reminds me of the Trash Friday-episode of The West Wing. The 6th December the goons of hazard in EU meet and decide what they already seem to agree about: a no more privacy act.
Information about phone calls, email, web surfing and fax transmissions in the EU-countries will be available to the police and justice departments. Exactly what information they will store and search for has yet to be told, but they will probably scan email and install some Echelon wiretap-system. The previous laws that ensured protection of privacy and personal id-information will now be rewritten, probably even seriously weakened.
They claim it is for tracking eventual terrorists — but when I think of how the cops here have acted this autumn, I do not feel assured or particularly safe. Quite the opposite.
