You’ll need ID to use Net cafes now in Italy. Add Data Retention into this and everything you do online is going to be watched.
Internet cafes also must make and keep a photocopy of the ID and be registered with their local police station, dictates the law, part of an anti-terror package approved after the July terrorist bombings in London.
Ireland and it’s 3 year data retention is cited for a reason to bring in longer and harser data retention laws in Europe. To harmonize things they say. Next they’ll harmonize with Italy for Netcafes and with another country for prepayed mobiles. Like the way the EU and the US “harmonized” their copyright laws but instead of matching the lenghts they increased them more, back and forth like a tennis match. Why do the governments have so much disdain for their electorate?
WordPress Structured Blogging plugin with added microformat attributes. The new wave starts here. This is Content 2.o
Pic of the fuel depot explosion in the UK. More here and here.