“Every provider, it does not matter if it is a mobile phone or your internet provider, has to collect the data six months: with whom, when and where you did phone calling, you did mails,” said Marco Schreuder, who is a member of the European Green Party (EGP).
“They are not check ‘what’ you were writing. They just want to know with whom you were writing and then they make a network profile, with whom you make friends, with whom you are connected,” he added.
The controversial measure goes as far as allowing espionage on text messages, and tracking people’s cell phones to allow the authorities to create a map of their movement patterns.
Activists in Austria have launched a campaign to take a motion against the DRD to the country’s constitutional court.
“This is only the politics of fear, nothing more,” Patryc Kopacynki of the Pirate Parties International movement stressed, suggesting that only a “dumb” terrorist might be trapped by the new surveillance rules.
“It is really ineffective because…I think every terrorist knows how to terrorize a country and knows what he or she should do not to [fall] under this stupid privacy stuff,” he said.
Critics argue that the EU is only wasting taxpayer’s Euros when it can be spent on the much needed recovery in the eurozone, whose economically stressed citizens are shouldering a heavy burden.
“The problem is just you would not find a terrorist with a data retention,” Schreuder stated, pointing out the futility of the data collection system that merely casts suspicions at almost every EU citizen instead of fighting terrorism.
The author of the Austrian version has placed provisions that require the police to notify the suspect if they are being monitored, and there will be a one-year evaluation among other conditions.
Austrians are, however, seeking to bring the motion to Constitutional Court to rid the central European country of the DRD for good.
The Data Retention Directive already appears to be in contrast with constitutional courts, like that of the Czech Republic, have rule the measure as unconstitutional, while other major EU member states, like Germany, find no legal ground to have the law around.
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