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