Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

"The Home Office is already consulting on plans due to come into effect in 2009 requiring all ISPs to keep the "who", "when" and "where" details of all web, VoIP and messaging traffic for at least 12 months, bringing the UK in line with an EU directive."

hmmmm ... here's a question for you

is the UK actually a signatory to the agreement that produced the directive from the EU or is this our legislation and the EU is being mentioned to misdirect people into thinking it's the EU's fault ?

I believe with passport and border control legislation at least, the UK tends to shadow EU legislation without actually being a member of the Schengen agreement that would require us to do so, and there is a tendency to blame the EU for those changes as well

so is this another piece of misdirection ?