<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I guess some of you have read about the written declaration number 29 that is a extension of the Data retention directive, i.e. letting EU inspect all your search engine searches in order to find people searching for childporn on the net. There are several obvious issues besides the freedom of speech so I wrote a blog a few days back about this:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://nicco77.blogspot.com/2010/05/thought-police.html">http://nicco77.blogspot.com/2010/05/thought-police.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also a lot of Swedish blogs were written and people started researching and it turned out that the data retention directive was mentioned by number only rather then explicitly telling them what it was about so 2 Swedish MEP's withdrew there signatures and this post has some ideas how we could convince the rest of the MEP's to do the same: </div>
<div><br></div><a href="http://interfax.werebuild.eu/2010/06/02/smile29-or-the-trick-that-went-awry/">http://interfax.werebuild.eu/2010/06/02/smile29-or-the-trick-that-went-awry/</a><div><br></div><div>The Swedish Pirateparty MEP Christian Engström have also written about this:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/written-declaration-29-for-data-retention-of-internet-searches/">http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/written-declaration-29-for-data-retention-of-internet-searches/</a></div>
<div><a href="http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/urging-meps-to-withdraw-their-written-declaration-29-signatures/">http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/urging-meps-to-withdraw-their-written-declaration-29-signatures/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I just read a e-mail a activist written to a Swedish MEP who motivates his signature by saying that we have to offer our privacy to stop the abuse of the children (ever heard that one before? First it was terrorism, security and now our children, a new low!) and the activist writes:</div>
<div><br></div><div>"We will do our best to fight child porn, but not by chasing mosquito's with nuclear bombs."</div><div><br></div><div>I urge you in Europe to contact your MEP's and for the rest keep your eyes open for similar ideas coming to the surface because it is just a matter of time..</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- Nicolas</div>