Europe proposes to track phone and net use very, very closely

A panoptic approach to security is proposed in Europe, and people are pointing out the flaws:

“This is an incredibly bad thing in terms of privacy, since people have grown up with the idea that you ought to be able to have an anonymous e-mail account,” Mr. Fleischer said. “Moreover, it’s totally unenforceable and would never work.”

Europe’s Plan to Track Phone and Net Use - New York Times

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