US could access EU data retention information

US could access EU data retention information
12.05.2006 - 09:50 CET | By Helena Spongenberg

US authorities can get access to EU citizens' data on phone calls, sms' and emails, giving a recent EU data-retention law much wider-reaching consequences than first expected, reports Swedish daily Sydsvenskan.

The EU data retention bill, passed in February after much controversy and with implementation tabled for late 2007, obliges telephone operators and internet service providers to store information on who called who and who emailed who for at least six months, aimed at fighting terrorism and organised crime.

A week later on 2-3 March, EU and US representatives met in Vienna for an informal high level meeting on freedom, security and justice where the US expressed interest in the future storage of information.

The US delegation to the meeting "indicated that it was considering approaching each member state to ensure that the data collected on the basis of the recently adopted Directive on data retention be accessible to them," according to the notes of the meeting.
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http://euobserver.com/9/21580

you are never truly free until tyranny is defeated here at home.

the constructing a database of billions of phone connections is in any way going to help stop terrorism? . . . are they that stupid? . . .

guess so . . . :shrug:

I imagine someone has a juicy contract to do this and it comes in very handy against ones enemies in the world. It is all about the money and power, the hell with terrorism.

and i am not going to have some fucking incompetent imperialist fucker have records of my phone calls.

Thats it i've been called to action, it ain't gonna fucking happen.

Jesus Christ is this a dream? A foreign country (America) is going to have access to my private calls? They are building an intelligence empire, knowledge is power.

Just don't reach out to touch anyone. Go to minimum service and don't use it except to call 911. Starve the phone companies. Act like it's a war--'cause it is!