Hi there.


Okay, first of all you've gotta know I'm from german. Germany - the home of burreaucracy and formality.
I just read a few lines in a magazine and as shocked immediately:

The government just accepted a new law that describes a few rights for our so-called "security organisations". As written down in the "Tomorrow", the new law says that all the communications and all the internet-traffic shall be logged and not be deleted for 6 month. That means that every telephony-company has to record all incoming and outgoing calls including

User-from -> User-to
Length of call
Time when called


Then the mobilephone-companies will have to record all SMS in whole - that means they have to save

User-from -> User-to
complete text of SMS
Time when sent
Position of sender/receiver when sent


For this not to be enough, there is even more:

All internet-providers have to save your eMails when coming in or going out of your mailbox.
That means when you're registered and "Deutsche Telekom" then the Telekom saves all the text you send or receive in eMails. Nice, huh?


They say it's necessary for "extended fight against crime" especially crime against children and sexual abuse of children.

And now the best of all:
All of these "security organisations" such as our "secret service" (dunno what they call it right now...) or just the police have full access to all of this data. They just have to call the company where the data they want is saved, say "Hello, here is Mr. X from security organisation Sec007. We are interested in the last 1200 phone calls and 500 eMails that were received or sent by Mr. Suspicious. Please send them there and there. Yes. Goodbye.".

IMHO this is a direct attack on the consumer's privacy.

I would like to know what you think about it.



(Did I mention this IMS-Catcher-Device they use to precisely locate mobile-phones? Whenever you log on to a mobile-network with your mobile, they can track you down to the meter. Just in case someone is fleeing and he's using a mobile )



Sledge