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EU child protection law hides a data retention directive
A PROPOSAL in an EU directive to protect children from abuse for retaining search engine data for up to two years has been tabled.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the early warning system to detect paedophiles and sex offenders violates European data protection rules.
"Written Declaration 29" has an embedded data retention policy that would obligate the search engines to store data. The declaration asks the EU council to consider implementing the proposals to increase its powers to investigate online paedophiles.
"Ask the [European] Council and the [European] Commission to implement Directive 2006/24/EC and extend it to search engines in order to tackle online child pornography and sex offending rapidly and effectively."
As the EFF pointed out, Directive 2006/24/EC is otherwise known as the European Data Retention Directive.
"[It is an] unpopular framework that compels telecommunications service providers operating in Europe to store all communications traffic data between six months and up to [two] years, for possible use by law enforcement," said Katitza Rodriguez.
The data retention proposals have serious implications under the guise of a well-intentioned but woefully misguided policy. The EFF notes that parliamentarian Cecilia Wikström withdrew support when she realised that "Long-term storage of citizens' data has clearly nothing to do with 'early warning' for any purpose."
The EFF said EU citizens can campaign against this surveillance by signing up for the Smile29 campaign. µ
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Dear Mrs Anna Zaborska and Mr Tiziano Motti, please let me express sincere thanks for the WRITTEN DECLARATION No. 29 and smile29.eu. These legal measures bring new tools and opportunities for businesses to expand in the area of making cyberspace free of all ill-advised people.
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Without your efforts this would not have been possible !
Where exactly do these come from, and by what authority? Are there "UNWritten Declarations? How do you know there aren't? Are Europeans really subject to nameless bureaucrats in Brussels?
The implications to the above matter-of-fact bureaucratism are shockingly Orwellian when regarded in absolute terms, but I suppose those who've been gradually accustomed to it will at best regard me as reactionary. -- True. My political opinions froze about 30 years ago, and while I've since learned details of how the world actually works, that there are people working to obtain absolute power globally is more openly confirmed every day. The police state has arrived in slow increments, and yet I still notice every increment.
Is this the *same* EU who, in 2007, asked the *same* Google why they needed to keep search data for 2 years, and told them it violated EU law?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/25/technology/25iht-25google.5863536.html?_r=1
Why, yes it is!
What goes around comes around, eh?
Let me guess, a british initiative? I trust that this will never pass, and my trust had better be justified because this is just beyond words, and against the EU and UN established human rights, and how about we charge the person who wrote that bill and have him/her put in the clink for attempted crimes against humanity? a single week would already send quite a message.