EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer

bs0d3 writes "EU MEP Tiziano Motti (Italy), wants everything you do online to be logged and saved, for the sake of the children. Like a black box installed on every computer. He proposes an early warning system of criminal activity, specifically whenever an image of sexually abused children is detected, an alarm, goes to the authorities to be able to see who uploaded it. Tiziano Motti was a politician who just over a year ago managed to get a majority of European Members of Parliament to support the proposal to expand the data storage directive to Google searches. The purpose was to protect children from pedophiles — the same excuse he is using now. His proposal involves a technology called Logbox. And just as with an aircraft's black box, Logbox is installed on computers, laptops, smartphones, and e-readers because yes, all that can be connected to the internet."

Don't Worry

[HopefulIntern]

Nothing will ever come of this. One crackpot idea from an idiot who knows nothing about technology does not constitute a reasonable proposal.

FTFA:

If it were China, North Korea or Saudi Arabia who had proposed this, what would we say then? It's scary in a democratic Europe to even hear a politician suggest such a thing. It is so absurd that I really hope we never have to discuss it seriously in Parliament.

-MEP Lars Christian Engstrom (Sweden)

The proposal claims to be based on users' rights and claims they are protected, that they should feel safe. He writes at the beginning that he did not want to create a new Big Brother Society. But then the whole document is about just that.

-Former Piratbyran founder and current telecomix hactivist Marcin de Kaminski

Re:Mr Motti:

[Stuarticus]

Maybe he should clean up his own house before getting started on everyone else's... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi_underage_prostitution_charges [wikipedia.org]

Re:Misleading title !!

[HopefulIntern]

It doesn't. Like your assumption, it is one ignorant guy in need of some attention by suggesting a radical idea. The fact he had good support a while ago seems to suggest he is universally supported but they voices of other MEP's in response to his ludicrous proposition suggests otherwise. Nothing to worry about.

Re:Misleading title !!

[GreatBunzinni]

Actually, it isn't "one ignorant guy". It's at least two ignorant MEPs: from Italy and [europa.eu]Anna Záborská [europa.eu] from Slovakia. They co-authored the Written Declaration 29 [smile29.eu], where they state quite bluntly that they want every european citizen being constantly monitored by the police to avoid putting some hypothetical nasty criminal "on the same footing as honest citizens and making it difficult for the authorities to trace them".

More on this in:

• Christian Engström's blog, a Pirate MEP [wordpress.com]
• EU's Data Retention Directive [wikipedia.org]