[Chapter-delegates] Giant database plan 'Orwellian'

[Veni Markovski]

These requirements are part of EU Directive 24 / 2006, so I don't see 
anything to worry about. Yes, they could store the data could have 
been 6 months (the minimum), or 24 (max). PGP will not help, if you 
are committing a crime :)

veni

At 03:45 AM 10/18/2008  +1200, Franck Martin wrote:
>Time to use PGP and IPSec
>
>This link came up in the IGC mailing list... Posted here for discussion.
>
><http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm
>
>Excerpts from this UK news:
>
>Details of the times, dates, duration and locations of mobile phone 
>calls, numbers called, website visited and addresses e-mailed are 
>already stored by telecoms companies for 12 months under a voluntary 
>agreement.
>
>The data can be accessed by the police and security services on 
>request - but the government plans to take control of the process in 
>order to comply with an EU directive and make it easier for 
>investigators to do their job.
>
>Information will be kept for two years by law and may be held 
>centrally on a searchable database.