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[FYI] World leaders use terror card to watch all of us. Forever.
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- Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:28:59 +0200
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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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