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"Mr President, Ms Malmström, ladies and gentlemen, let us remind ourselves of what is at stake here. We are discussing the collection of all of the telecommunications data, all of the telecommunications framework data, for all 500 million European citizens all of the time, not in specific situations, not if there is reason to suspect any wrongdoing, but all the time, on an ongoing basis. This amounts to the permanent surveillance of every individual! Please use your imagination and consider what a major intrusion this is into the basic rights of every citizen in Europe. This intrusion must be justified. Like the previous speakers, I would like to know what evidence is available to show that this Directive – all this data retention – is in fact necessary or a suitable means of achieving the objective, namely more effective investigation of crime, especially internet-based crime. I have not yet seen any evidence of that, or any indication that this is indeed the case. Let us consider our real objective for a moment. Our real objective is to reduce crime rates and prevent crime. Let me say this: the Data Protection Directive has made no difference whatsoever. There is absolutely no difference in the crime statistics between the Member States where data retention takes place and those where it does not. This even applies to internet-related crime. Instead, we have invested vast sums of money in implementing data retention, which has proved to be extremely expensive. As a result, we have diverted funds from other areas where it could have been put to good use, such as providing police stations with internet access so that they can carry out case-specific investigations in the proper manner. That is something you should think about."@en1
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