No mention is made of costs. The directive says 'Article 10 — Costs. Deleted'.

It's not as bad as we feared. Not every single data packet has to be retained — yet.

It includes provision for the retention of the date and time for 'log in' and 'log off' an Internet email service, but most email programs connect to the email server every five minutes. The directive doesn't ask for the time mail is sent and received. It doesn't ask for the sender of received emails.

It's not as bad as we feared. Not every single data packet has to be retained — yet.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.