European Court of Justice - Data Retention Directive Invalid

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Yesterday the European Court of Justice ruled that the Data Retention Directive is invalid.

This directive had forced ISPs to collect data about your personal calls, emails, texts and web usage and keep it for up to two years. Yesterday, the ECJ rightly ruled that this breached your rights to privacy and to protection of data.

This ruling is a very significant step in the fight against the mass surveillance of our personal communications. Now, we need to make sure that the government recognises that this law is dead and we will work to stop ISPs from unlawfully keeping your data.

Bit more info on this at https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blo...king-the-law-by-continuing-to-retain-our-data
 
More bleeding heart, liberal legal establishment madness. The sooner we get rid of the Human Rights Act in this country the better, I just hope it doesn't take UKIP to do it.
 
Sounds like a good step was made - although tbh I dont use my landline - as in ever, rarely - very rarely send emails so that leaves web usage -not too bothered about, but I wont lie - I would torrent a fair amount. But its the principle behind it, I'd rather keep my privacy than not.
 
Monkeymatt said:
I'm sick and tired of the EU standing up for our rights. UKIP have my vote for the next election.
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Indeed, the real tyrants seem to be already in our house so to speak (LibLabCon).

All of this anti-EU sentiment has only really hit the mainstream since the EU tried to rein in our banking system and David Cameron stomped his feet and said no, before that it was considered sacrilege to even suggest leaving the EU. UKIP have been on the rise ever since and they are no longer portrayed as an extremist party in the media, not like they used to be.
 
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Monkeymatt said:
I'm sick and tired of the EU standing up for our rights. UKIP have my vote for the next election.
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Good sarcasm.

scorza said:
More bleeding heart, liberal legal establishment madness. The sooner we get rid of the Human Rights Act in this country the better, I just hope it doesn't take UKIP to do it.
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However here I can't tell if serious...
 
mmj_uk said:
Indeed, the real tyrants seem to be already in our house so to speak (LibLabCon).

All of this anti-EU sentiment has only really hit the mainstream since the EU tried to rein in our banking system and David Cameron stomped his feet and said no, before that it was considered sacrilege to even suggest leaving the EU. UKIP have been on the rise ever since and they are no longer portrayed as an extremist party in the media, not like they used to be.
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David Cameron did right. The City of London is one of the biggest financial centres in the world. Having taxes on financial transactions would be damaging to our country unless it was implemented globally which lets face it, it's not. The banks would just up sticks and move to a non EU country.

I'd like to see a referendum on the European Union.
 
LordSplodge said:
However here I can't tell if serious...
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I am serious, collecting data about communications is not a breach of privacy unless someone unlawfully uses it imo. In this day and age with all the external threats faced by this country, retaining this sort of data would seem eminently sensible.

areksnumbr1sxylady said:
Its Scorza.... I think he is a troll.
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How long does your buddy Vladimir Putin keep data on phone calls made by senior EU officials do you think?
 
scorza said:
I am serious, collecting data about communications is not a breach of privacy unless someone unlawfully uses it imo. In this day and age with all the external threats faced by this country, retaining this sort of data would seem eminently sensible.



How long does your buddy Vladimir Putin keep data on phone calls made by senior EU officials do you think?
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Even if he does,

1. You just made it clear it is ok to do so.

2. NSA?

3. US Scandal of listening to EU?
 
areksnumbr1sxylady said:
Even if he does,

1. You just made it clear it is ok to do so.

2. NSA?

3. US Scandal of listening to EU?
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Spies be spying, I've no problem with people doing what they're supposed to do. I take issue though when material collected by spies is then spun and edited to present misleading and dangerous propaganda to fool the gullible. This includes the "dodgy dossier" released by the UK government to justify the invasion of Iraq.
 
This has nothing to do with our secret spy agencies and the data they collect. (In secret.) They work to rules that are, well, secret.

It's more to do with data used in legal cases, drug dealers and the like.

The polices job has just been made much harder as they can no longer reference communication history with a court order.

I wonder how many court cases could collapse on the basis that the way evidence was collected is now deemed illegal.
 
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They'll still collect it, they just won't tell you about it.

Spying is ALWAYS above the law. You think DC knows everything GCHQ gets up to....no chance in hell.
 
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