kaya'08
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Details of user e-mails, website visits and net phone calls will be stored by internet service providers (ISPs) from Monday under an EU directive.
The plans were drawn up in the wake of the London bombings in 2005.
ISPs and telecoms firms have resisted the proposals while some countries in the EU are contesting the directive.
Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said it was a "crazy directive" with potentially dangerous repercussions for citizens.
All ISPs in the European Union will have to store the records for a year. An EU directive which requires telecoms firms to hold on to telephone records for 12 months is already in force.
The data stored does not include the content of e-mails and websites, nor a recording of a net phone call, but is used to determine connections between individuals.
Authorities can get access to the stored records with a warrant.
Governments across the EU have now started to implement the directive into their own national legislation.
Okay im pretty disgusted. I'll be off to Saudi Arabia now where i could probably find more rights to privacy then i could here. This is barbaric, an absolute breach of privacy. Who have access to them? Who will see them, who has the authority and what will they do with my private information?
What i do on the internet in the privacy of my own home should STAY with me. If police where so ****ing concerned about what sites criminals are visiting, then they can take there computers where you could find an archive of old and deleted files on the Hard drive anyway. This is absolutely uneccessary. The EU is trying to turn into a dicatorship state. Man, this is really aweful. This is just the beginning of the end of privacy. Heed my words!!!!
BBC NEWS | Technology | Net firms start storing user data
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