Net firms start storing user data (BBC)
Details of user e-mails and net phone calls will be stored by internet service providers (ISPs) from Monday under an EU directive.
The plans were drawn up in the wake of the London bombings in 2005.
ISPs and telecoms firms have resisted the proposals while some countries in the EU are contesting the directive.
Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said it was a "crazy directive" with potentially dangerous repercussions for citizens.
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This is getting plain fucken' crazy now. Call me a paranoid but with everyone keeping busy with the economic crises, doesn't seem that the big brother is changing some key freedoms and will be in control of many facets of your and my life?
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