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October 09, 2005
Can This Be True?
Check your email in Italy? Bring your passport:
"After Italy passed a new antiterrorism package in July, authorities ordered managers offering public communications services, like Mr. Savoni, (owner of an Internet cafe) to make passport photocopies of every customer seeking to use the Internet, phone, or fax.
"Like other owners of Internet cafes, Savoni had to obtain a new public communications business license, and purchase tracking software that costs up to $1,600. The software saves a list of all sites visited by clients, and Internet cafe operators must periodically turn this list into their local police headquarters." Link.
So every time you check your email or visit the web at an Internet cafe, your name is recorded and delivered to the local police headquarters. My friends tell me I'm paranoid, but every week I see another chink in the infrastructure necessary for totalitarian control put into place. Orwell had 1984 thirty years too early.
Why is this not major news?
Posted by DavidK at October 9, 2005 08:29 AM | Permalink