[FYI] World leaders use terror card to watch all of us. Forever.

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25311.html

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World leaders use terror card to watch all of us. Forever 

By John Leyden  

Posted: 16/05/2002 at 17:40 GMT  

Pronouncements from this week's G8 Justice and Interior Ministers 
meeting about data protection and the retention of Internet traffic 
data have created concern among privacy activists.  

Controversy centres around whether blanket retention of traffic data 
on the entire population should be permitted (effectively making 
every Internet user susceptible to continuous surveillance of their 
online activity), or whether data should only be recorded on 
specifically designated targets or groups. Although the G8 refers to 
September 11 and terrorism as justification for data retention, there 
is no proposal to limit the use of data to terrorist cases.  

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