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Glyn Moody reports via TechDirt
Here's another [data retention] law, this time from Peru, which has a particularly nasty twist, as the EFF reports:
The Peruvian President today adopted a legislative decree that will grant the police warrantless access to real time user location data on a 24/7 basis. But that's not the worst part of the decree: it compels telecom providers to retain, for one year, data on who communicates with whom, for how long, and from where. It also allows the authorities access to the data in real time and online after seven days of the delivery of the court order. Moreover, it compels telecom providers to continue to retain the data for 24 more months in electronic storage. Adding insult to injury, the decree expressly states that location data is excluded from the privacy of communication guaranteed by the Peruvian Constitution.
[...] The EFF post goes on to point out that the move contradicts a variety of human rights obligations that Peru has undertaken to comply with.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @04:22AM
True. All we've done on the copyright front is block nonsense like SOPA, which took significant effort to stop. Most wouldn't have cared about it if big websites hadn't warned people. Even though we won that particular fight, you don't see anyone trying to get rid of the draconian Berne Convention and similar. We win and prevent the situation from getting worse. We lose and we never retake lost territory. So all we do is wait for the next draconian copyright law to be rammed down our throats.