EU Wants Air Passenger Data Collected 151
An anonymous reader sends news of the EU following in the footsteps of the US in that they are contemplating requiring all 27 member states to collect data on airline passengers and to retain it for up to 13 years. No centralized database would be created; instead states would be encouraged to store and to share their own data as needed. All states would have to pass enabling laws before the measure could come into effect. The rules would not apply to flights entirely within the EU. The proposal is part of an anti-terrorism package that also includes tighter laws to control hate speech and bomb-making instructions.
Damnit! (Score:5, Funny)
Yes but... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, at least unless there's a major change in international politics sometime soon I hope not
OK. (Score:3, Funny)
OK! Let'em choke on all that data! There's no way that they could keep it all straight - and that's assuming there's no errors!
The genie is out of the bottle, let's give them what they want to the 666 power!
In Soviet Russia ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I cringe at the though of hate speech (Score:3, Funny)
The government, thankfully. They always know what's best for us. You'd have to be insane to say something negative about the government, because loosely defined enough hate speech laws might allow the government to jail opposition voices because they "could be seeking to disrupt public order or incite riots." We can't have riots, that would be double-plus ungood.
Re:In Soviet Russia ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yes but... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yes but... (Score:3, Funny)
Godwin's Law. You lose.