Big Brother monitoring your internet use C/D?

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European law enforcement agencies were given sweeping powers yesterday to monitor telephone, internet and email traffic in a move denounced by critics as the biggest threat to data privacy in a generation.
Despite opposition from civil liberties groups worldwide, the European parliament bowed to pressure from individual governments, led by Britain, and approved legislation to give police the power to access the communications records of every phone and internet user.

The Guardian: Europe votes to end data privacy

― stevo, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't really get worked up about the civil liberties aspect of this. I do however think it is a monstrously wasteful and costly hammer to crack this particular nut (pl. forgive the clichéd metaphor, N.)

― Jeff W, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

upside: someone somewhere has a complete archive of ilm and ile!!

also we can ask them to adjudicate? Shout to Shadowy Info-Narc: "who really won the "irony = wifebeating thread", osmond g. ristle or 'us'?"

― mark s, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Us'.

― John Ashcroft, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The members of FMBB are about to be apprehended. Obtuseness is a sign of TERRORISM.

― Dandy Don, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Woohoo!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there's something strangely coincidental that this happens within 24 hours of the same thing happeing in the US.

Mind you, maybe they're just after world cup gossip

― Queen G of the 9th Seal of the revelation of Dubya's Ass, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Or better still - Big Brother gossip. Whoo - infinite hall or mirrors.

― Austin., Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nothing from Canada so far Im assuming? A few years back they passed legislation saying they wouldnt do it, wonder if they meant it.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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