Everybody should join this campaign if you don't want to live in a society where everything you do is constantly monitored by the government/police(you can sign the petition yourself, tell about it to all your friends,post the link to other msgboards,open the site in a exit console or make it your link of the day)
The campaign/petition is here:
http://www.stop1984.com/index2.php?...text=letter.txt
here is the petition text:
The EU-Parliament decided contrary to the basic statement of the directive about data protection and the recommendations of the commitee for civil rights in the European Parliament: YES to data retention without evidence.
Thus the member countries are empowered to enact national laws about retention of digital network data, in open disregard of the EU-Directive on data protection.
Therefore we address this open letter to all the members of national parliaments as well as to the governments of the EU member countries. As the EU-Parliament isn't respecting the idea behind its own directive about the protection of data we expect the members of the parliaments and governments of the EU-members to act as a necessary corrective.
Individual meta-information, extracted from evaluated data of communication, provides information about our communicational behavior, our personal interests, about the places we travel to, sexual orientation and preferences and our whereabouts.
No state has the right to store intimate data like this about its citizens without evidence - legitimated only by the argument of easier law enforcement.
We demand that storing of these data by law enforcement authorities should be bound to warrants or to the appropriate authorities and be allowed only on a case-by-case basis. This should be done adequatly and on a limited scale as well as according to the European Convention of Human Rights, the European Charta of Basic Rights and the decisions by the European Court.
If fundamental democratic rights are sacrificed in the the quest for safety, freedom will die as well.
Systematic and preventive retention of all electronic communication data means the end to the most important rights within a democracy: the right of privacy, freedom of speech and the presumption of innocence.
We the undersigned demand members of parliament and governments to fullfill their duties as peoples' representatives.
Value the benefit and freedom of the individual higher than a hypothetic facility for law enforcement authorities!