*** Even if the people do it will not change much. All governments are on the "fighting the terrorism" trip which allows them to establish at last all/any restrictive laws they were always dreaming of. The worst is, a lot of people will actually believe it is a good thing, like they believe Microsoft is the best thing that happened to IT...
Anyway, the announcement is not really big news: Echelon has been there for a very long time. It would be ostrich politics to think your privacy was guaranteed until now. Zoran. P.S. Let us move this to general to avoid pollution of the main list, so post any response to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SxS Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 9:10 PM Subject: <OT> EU wants to keep track of all communications (I guess Big Brother can be European, too!) Records of personal communications, including all emails and telephone calls, will be stored for at least a year under a proposal to be decided by EU governments next month. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,777526,00.html Sad state of affairs when almost everything that you do is watched. I hope people develop a thing called a spine and stand up and say no! :end of rant: Harry G _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/general
