Tuesday 2 March 2010

wi-fight

To be commended for exercizing some common sense and restraint, the German high court voted to overturn a 2008 dragnet on personal communications, that allowed the government to collect data indiscriminately and retain it for an indefinite period, six-months at a minimum.  The justice ministers said that the government must be selective when trawling for data and that gathering such data violated secrecy and privacy laws.