"The task for policy makers now is to determine who should have access to these new data and ..."

Now, after the data has been collected? And data from the EU also goes to the US? I can already see the European Parliament debating how to protect EU citizens.

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I'd like just one honest-to-goodness reference of a terrorist caught with all this electronic invading of my personal life.
Just one please, tried by a jury in a proper trial and found guilty because he was on his mobile long enough to get caught.
Come one, name one.
If there had been one, I'm sure we would have heard of it.
Given that there hasn't been a worldwide assault of ads claiming victory in removing individual freedoms for the sake of catching Bin Laden (hey, Dubya, remember that guy ?), I do believe all this hoopla has been for nothing.
Okay, for next to nothing (and for very small values of nothing).

"The report also recommended that an external entity monitor information-based counter-terrorism programs to "mine the miners and track the trackers"."

The report should have recommended, of course, that an external entity mentor information-based counter-terrorism programs, for mining miners and tracking trackers, for they are obviously in dire straits need of the help.

Maybe that is an alien to them, which is though, XXXXstreamly easily remedied.

Area 51 Chunnel 42 Spooky Skunk Works Stuff ......... Bletchley AI Boffinry, if anyone asks.

And yes, that is AIdDirect Invitation if/when/because Uncle Sam is Slow on the Steganographic Uptake.