[IP] France Announces Massive Internet Surveillance by ISPs

[Eugen Leitl]

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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