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Somebody's trying to push through some nasty clauses in a relatively innocuous-seeming EU Telecoms bill.

Malcolm Harbour's amendment allowing commercial organisations to conduct surveillance on users of ISPs, i.e. nearly everyone, and apply sanctions to them without recourse to due legal process is particularly objectionable to me.

I do not believe that anyone at all apart from a police officer (with a court order, in the case of serious crime) should be allowed to conduct clandestine surveillance involving intercepting the telecommunications of British citizens or be allowed legally to use the results for any purpose.

– comment on EUROPEANS! You have until MONDAY to contact your MEP and save the EU from a three-strikes copyright rule!, BoingBoing.net

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