Pläne für EU-Beschluss: Bundesregierung will das gläserne Handy - not only the mobile phone, but also email connection data, SMS connection data, etc. are to be stored centrally. What utter nonsense. On the one hand, it is absurd to create these amounts of data when only a tiny fraction of them is relevant to the authorities. On the other hand, it is even more absurd that this whole mess is paid for by tax money and indirectly by customers through the burden on companies. We are paying for our own surveillance.
It is always shocking how far this SPD government is willing to go to fulfill Schily's paranoia and the omnipotence fantasies of intelligence agencies and parts of the law enforcement authorities.
It is time to promote projects like tor, pgp, and similar services and combinations thereof (how about Internet telephony over tor, encrypted and signed with PGP keys?). Tor, in particular, plays an important role in hindering connection analysis. This general suspicion by the state is simply unacceptable.
However, it is a permanent mystery to me why allegedly left-wing politicians do not take notice when their proposals receive applause from prolethicians like Beckstein. Where are the supposedly concerned people who wanted to advocate for the interests of citizens? Where do they stand against the hardliner direction of Schily and his ilk?