I don't remember exactly, but on the phone thing, location information already is stored for alot of phones (mostly prepaid cellsphones). People with non-prepaid cellphones and people with landlines naturaly have their traffic info saved because they can't be billed without that...

I read some article a while ago that this thing wouldn't actually help solving more crimes at all. Alot of information is already stored and that information proved to be more then enough in the past.

Yeah, that's right, I'm basicly just in the dark about what the hell they're approving here and what the consequences are.

I agree with this from the article:
"Real terrorists escape detection by using foreign Internet service providers like Hotmail and Yahoo, Internet cafes, and pay-as-you-go phones while ordinary citizens could find details of their movement, acquaintances and favorite Web sites circulating [among government officials]," she added.
Because, really, if I were a serious terrorist I'd cover my ass for stuff like this.

And also I have a preemptive (maybe unfounded) deteste for everything wich got anti-terrorism tags on it. They usually are more anti-somthing-else and are just loosely related to something terrorismic then the other way arround. Basicly you can relate everything to terrorism. Maybe the traintickets should be more expensive so low-resource terrorists can't get in the train or maybe you should have a special license for everything electronic that might be used to detonate a bomb. Maybe we should stop voting so high-resource terrorists can't get a seat in the parliament/senate/whatever.