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10/27/2007: "Anti-Nazi laws provide for universal gov't eavesdropping"
On November 9th, the German parliament will most likely vote in favour of a law which will make logging of all connections, be they over Internet, landline or cellular phone, mandatory (German source). As an added bonus, the Cybercrime Convention of the European Union will ensure that a total of 52 countries will have access to this data without review by a judge, restriction of commensurability or even a mandatory expiration date for the prosecution of any and all actions that are against the law in the requesting country. This list includes countries with long-standing records in human rights like Azerbaijan, Russia or Moldova.
[ No one will say this, but this law is enacted to help them crack down on "extremist groups." So in the name of a few Muslim terrorists and white neo-Nazis, everyone gets observed by the Stalinist Nanny State. Good thinking! ]
http://briefe.gegen.daten.speicherung.eu/