UN calls for worldwide internet surveillance and data retention in the name of fighting terrorism

http://endthelie.com/2012/10/23/un-calls-for-worldwide-internet-surveillance-and-data-retention-in-the-name-of-fighting-terrorism/#axzz2B1wnvqJm

The manufactured threat of terrorism has once again been used to push what would otherwise be unthinkable. In this case, the United Nations is exploiting the irrational fear of terrorism to justify international internet surveillance.

In a new 148-page UN report released at a conference in Vienna entitled “The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes” the UN claimed that the lack of an “internationally agreed framework for retention of data” is problematic along with open wireless internet networks in public places.

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