Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-29-Speech-3-152"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the directive we are debating this evening is desperately needed, as it forms the coda of the telecommunications package that we adopted last year. We must ensure that our citizens and businesses do not receive unsolicited
mail, that their personal details are not included in telephone directories without their permission, and that their surfing behaviour is not secretly registered via cookies. All these areas are covered very effectively in the proposal – in fact in a harmonised manner – the only correct way in our digital, cross-border world.
However, I am unable to support the proposal on data storage. In fact, I cannot understand how the Commission can back the Council proposal. Has the Commissioner ever considered how much it would cost telecom operators and surf providers to store all this data for years on behalf of businesses, how much storage this would require and how much it would cost altogether?
In times of war, a state is always inclined to prioritise state security over the privacy of the citizens. But there is no war. We must protect the privacy of our citizens and stick our necks out for this. And this is exactly what we are doing today."@en1
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