EU States Propose Massive Data Retention Plan

[Jared Moya]

The European Union has unveiled plans to require all telephone and Internet traffic to be logged and stored for up to a year in order to help combat organized crime and terrorism. The plan was unveiled on Wednesday by the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, and would require the approval of the European Parliament. EU member states, which make up the European Council, have made a similar proposal, but it would require data to be stored for a longer period and would force service providers to bear the full costs of compliance—estimated at nearly 200 million euros per company per year.  Both proposals would require compliance from service providers located outside the EU if they carry traffic to the area.  

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[isus]

And how exactly is this getting paid for? 200 million euros a year is a shitload of money. And where is all that data going to be stored? Damn, I'm one person, and in under 24 hours, I've downloaded and uploaded nearly 10 gigs of information... 10GB x a few million people = Really big number.

[etabeta]

As usual; misinformed and ignorant polticians making useless and costly regulations.

[mcovey]

log all my bittorrent downloads plz so I can get them back if I accidentally delete them.

[ABC123666]

Off cource terrorists who spend months planing out their attacks would be too stupid to use pgp or steganography/

/sarcasm

[mountain_rage]

So this is only gonna add 200$ a month to internet costs. I still dont know how they can actually inforce this.

[Jared Moya]

Whats funny is that it sounds so stupid that you'd think it was the US that would try to do this, not the EU..........

[mcovey]

argentina did try it.

EDIT:
yep no idea if it succeeded though
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/11/1944204&from=rss