Data Retention is No Solution Petition

The European ministers of Justice and the European Commission want to keep all telephone and internet traffic data of all 450 million Europeans. If you are concerned about this plan, please sign the petition.

What's wrong with data retention? The proposal to retain traffic data will reveal who has been calling and e-mailing whom, what websites people have visited and even where they were with their mobile phones.

Telephone companies and internet services providers would be ordered to store all traffic data of their customers. Police and intelligence agencies in Europe would be granted access the traffic data. Various, competing proposals in Brussels mention retention periods from 6 months up to four years.

The European Digital Rights Initiative has responded to this legislative initiative started the Data Retention Is No Solution petition, already signed by more than 20,000 people. The goal is to collect one million signatures by October 12, 2005.

For more information, and to sign the petition, please visit the Data Retention is No Solution web site.