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August 03, 2005
Richard North Sees a Police State Coming to the UK
In an August 3, 2005 post headlined "The Police State Cometh," Richard North at EU Referendum noted that, "Following Home Secretary [Charles] Clarke's proposals last month for an EU law on data retention, it seems the EU commission has been hard at work preparing a new directive."
Mr. North said, "According to the on-line magazine Infoeconomy a leaked commission document has revealed its plans which, if anything, are worse than expected."
"The proposed directive will force telecommunication companies to store logs of all fixed and mobile telephony traffic for one year while Internet traffic will have to be kept for six months," he wrote, adding: "The proposal requires the identity and addresses of both the sender and receiver be stored."
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 3, 2005 02:32 AM
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