EU proposal puts confidential communications data at risk

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

"Civil liberties groups La Quadrature du Net, European Digital Rights (EDRi), AK Vorrat and Netzpolitik.org are urging 
the European Parliament to heed advice
given by the European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx and scrap plans dubbed "voluntary data retention".

"A proposal currently discussed in the European Parliament as part of the 'telecom package' would allow providers to 
collect a potentially unlimited amount of sensitive,
confidential communications data including our telephone and e-mail contacts,
the geographic position of our mobile phones and the websites we visit on the Internet",
warns Patrick Breyer of German privacy watchdog AK Vorrat."
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More at
http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1358/1/lang,en/

Juha-Matti
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