Civil liberties groups from 11 countries ask EU to annul mass surveillance of Europeans

“While it threatens to inflict great damage on society, its potential
benefit appears, overall, to be little. Data retention can support the
protection of individual rights only in few and generally less
important cases. A permanent, negative effect on crime levels is not to
be expected… [With data retention in place] citizens constantly need to
fear that their communications data may at some point lead to false
incrimination or governmental or private abuse of the data. Because of
this, traffic data retention endangers open communication in the whole
of society.”

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