EU Data retention directive

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Monica Horten at IPTegrity.com on the “Data retention directive”:

The proponents were the British Presidency and EU justice ministers, who argued that retained data was needed in the fight against terrorism. The directive was opposed by the Internet industry, who found themselves on the same side as privacy campaigners. The industry raised many technical, business and legal issues, highlighting the high cost of implementation and flaws in the directive’s content – it is written from a voice telephony standpoint and ill-fitting for the Internet industry.

Read the full text, which is an abstract of Monica Horten’s masters dissertation, over at IPTegrity.com.

The “Data retention directive” was passed very quickly in 2006 after 7th July bombings in London. This is a directive that forces ISP’s to store traffic data for future analysis by Governments and others that have that privilege.

This is not part of anything I’ve written about lately but it’s still very actual here in Sweden. The Government is preparing to put it into our legislation soon, as they are required to do so by the European Union.

This is the next fight for us in Sweden after the FRA-law and the Telecoms package so it’s worth mentioning and raising some awareness about.

Update: More information here!