EU Sues Sweden, Demands ISP Data Retention 315
Death Metal writes "The EU passed the Data Retention Directive years ago, a law that demands ISPs and search engines hold onto data long enough to help the cops (but not long enough to cause privacy problems). But Sweden never passed it into national law, and the European Commission has now sued the country to make sure a bill appears."
Re:Why? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why? (Score:5, Funny)
"Sues Sweden? And what if they don't obey?"
All the rest of us start sending them all our asylum seekers mwuhahahaaa!
Re:Normal procedure (Score:2, Funny)
...in subservience to a higher ruling power.
Thank god...
Oh! That's +5 Funny! Thanks for that...
For the UK... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why? (Score:2, Funny)
...I don't even know what the gun-grabbers think it means.
It means that everyone has the right to own a set of bear arms, displayed prominently in their den, obviously! How could you not realize that?
Alternatively, I suppose it could have been an archaic construction/misspelling of bare, implying that the founding fathers, in their infinite wisdom and benevolence, realized that in the future, nanny state fascists would try to usurp the essential freedoms of Americans by legislating laws demanding the banning of sleeveless/shortsleeved shirts.
Re:Why? (Score:3, Funny)
Well it's whoever got sued last gets the asylum seekers... it's basically like a game, you have to try get laws passed that you know someone else won't want, so they get sued, and then they get the asylum seekers... but then you've just got to hope that they don't have a law up their sleeves to introduce that you don't want, cuz then they all get sent to you. Polics. It's fun, cuz it's playing with peoples lives.
Re:This is why we don't like the EU. (Score:1, Funny)
... and pushed through by the various national governments in the name of thinking of the terrorists and the children.
Yes, we must catch those children and save the terrorists!