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EU: NGO Letter to EU Commissioners rejecting the Directive on mandatory data retention

01 June 2010

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NGO Letter to EU Commissioners rejecting the Directive on mandatory data retention (pdf). The Letter signed by 106 NGOs, including Statewatch, opposes the EU Directive which enforces the gathering and retention of communications data on all phone-calls, faxes, mobile phone-calls (including location) and internet usage right across the EU:

"We believe that such invasive surveillance of the entire population is unacceptable. With a data retention regime in place, sensitive information about social contacts (including business contacts), movements and the private lives (e.g. contacts with physicians, lawyers, workers councils, psychologists, helplines, etc) of 500 million Europeans is collected in the absence of any suspicion."

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