More on the draconian data retention directive planned have surfaced. Apparently the parliamentary committee on civil liberties approved a preliminary version of the comission's directive. The directive after the committee's amendments is certainly better than the horrifying draft directive that the council made available a few months ago; but really, this one is not nice either. But it do give right to compensation for the ISPs, although the compensation will come from taxes, so it's a real waste of tax payers money.
Interesting now, is that the entertainment industry has lobbied the parliement in order to get access to the data that is supposed to help combat terrorism and organised crime. Though, their attempts were luckilly in vain.
I believe that I have stated this before, WE DON'T WANT NO STINKING DATA RETENTION LAW!!!
What should be done is the more sane and sensible things such as making way for a European FBI, simplification on information transfers between law enforcement agencies across Europe. And as far as the traffic data goes, yes, I think it's a good idea to allow access to existing traffic data across borders state borders, but forcing the ISPs to store more and additional data than necessary is despicable. Especially the manner this is introduced and the council's actions so far.
Bibliography
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/25/data_retention/
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39238422,00.htm
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/24/2243246&tid=123&tid=141
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