I did a quickie interview on privacy and technology with the Associated Press yesterday at the Picnic conference in Amsterdam:
«Google’s undue optimism about data collection and retention and the potential harm that arises from that has only been checked by European regulators: American regulators have been powerless and indeed not eager to intervene,» he said.
«The U.S. intelligence apparatus has a long history of using private data collectors to supplement its own collection,» he said, citing credit rating agency information as an example.
But he slammed the EU for the flip side of its «Data Retention Directive,» which says European ISPs must keep all communications data _ including tracking every Web site an individual user visits _ for at least six months.
The directive is supposed to be enacted in all European Union countries by this month, but most have asked for an extension to prepare for compliance.
