[IP] France Announces Massive Internet Surveillance by ISPs
Eugen Leitl
eugen at leitl.org
Tue Nov 27 00:08:50 PST 2007
In Germany, where on 9. November the data retention law well
in excess of the EU was made law (the list of the culprits is
available under http://eugen.leitl.org/list-of-terorists.pdf ),
only a couple short weeks later, on 24. November the connection
data will also be made available to civil rights owners
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/99505
so that teenage copyright terrorists and their parents may receive
the full penalty of the law. Civil law, not criminal law. Banking
laws have already been made transparent (but for politicians,
of course, who're immune and can only be made to yield minimal
and worthless information, which they resisted vigorously),
and are largely used to spy on recipients of unemployment benefits.
The road toll infrastructure which works by OCR of license plates
is being used to nab those pesky expiring license plate terrorists.
No real criminals have ever been caught, of course. The BKA
freely admits they're trying to catch criminals by looking who
accessed their web sites more than twice.
Don't we live in truly interesting times?
As usual, the sheep completely ignore this breathtaking, and
asymmetrical loss of privacy and liberties. Unlike France,
there's zero civil unrest.
Let's see how much it takes. Please, not the showers and delousing, again.
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