Entertainment industry trying to hijack data retention directive
The entertainment industry is trying to hijack the EU Data Retention directive, as ZDnet reports.
Industry lobbyists are attempting to have the directive amended, so that it would allow the data retained by ISPs to be used to prosecute all kinds of crimes, not just serious offences such as terrorism.
In combination with the proposed IPRED2 directive, which turns copyright violations into a criminal offence, this would make the data retention directive a free-for-all for the industry giants to prosecute individual users.