Re: [connect-bof] Germany and Dtag has some funny ideas http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/deutsche-telekom-pushes-all-german-internet-safe-from-spying-a-933013.html

The double-irony is that the EU's Data Retention Directive means that they were legally obliged to collect a lot of the data in the first place.

large organizations, which include governments, do not have it in their genes to discard, reduce, ignore, ... data, or to bypass opportunities to accrue more data. it is the opposite. expecting them to do otherwise is naive or silly. and pick your battles very carefully when choosing to push back against some facet of this. randy