{"id":4470,"date":"2017-04-17T02:55:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T09:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=4470"},"modified":"2021-07-29T09:41:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:41:01","slug":"what-australia-can-learn-from-europes-failure-with-data-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/what-australia-can-learn-from-europes-failure-with-data-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"What Australia can learn from Europe’s failure with Data Retention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Australia\u2019s law mandating telecommunications data retention<\/em> went into effect. It is clear that Australia learned absolutely nothing from Europe\u2019s abysmal 10-year failure with this exact law before it was finally struck down by courts as utterly incompatible with human rights at the core of its idea. Here\u2019s how Australia can fail a little faster on this horrendous concept by realizing it\u2019s just not inexcusable, it doesn\u2019t even work.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the 2004 Madrid bombings<\/a>, a handful of hawks saw their opportunity to pass unprecedented mass surveillance legislation, where people could be retroactively<\/em> wiretapped \u2013 something that was only possible if everybody was continuous wiretapped, all the time, so it could be retroactively reviewed<\/em>. Now, actual wiretapping would not have flown, so they went with the politically-new word \u201cmetadata\u201d, which didn\u2019t sound<\/em> nearly as bad but was conceivably much worse because it was machine-sortable: Everybody\u2019s communications metadata would be stored for a long time with the sole objective of using it against them.<\/p>\n

It was just four people \u2013 as little as four people out of five hundred million \u2013 who were ultimately driving this disaster into being in Europe, much through deception and Potemkin fa\u00e7ades. In Sweden, the concept was driven pretty much only<\/em> by the then-minister-of-Justice Thomas Bodstr\u00f6m, and skilled activists at the time traced how he couldn\u2019t get the Swedish Parliament to approve anything like it (for good reason), so he went for the infamous legislative \u201cBrussels Boomerang\u201d instead: make it a federal law at the EU level, and tie the hands of the Swedish Parliament to do it regardless of their opinion. There were three other like-minded people from other states, and that was all it took for the proposal to gain momentum at the Brussels level.<\/p>\n

On December 14, 2005,<\/strong> the European Parliament approved a mandate for all states to implement \u201ctelecommunications data retention\u201d, or as it would be more accurately described, \u201cpreemptive ongoing wiretapping of everybody in case we decide we want it later\u201d. The purpose is to combat \u201cterrorism and other crimes\u201d. That little \u201cand other crimes\u201d turned out to include basically everything, up to and including jaywalking \u2013 and in practice, it would be almost exclusively used to hunt ordinary people sharing music and movies outside of the monopolized copyright channels.<\/p>\n

So all of a sudden, everybody\u2019s activity was recorded \u2013 along with timestamps and their precise geographical position \u2013 whenever they did the most minute form of communication. It was a mass tracker.<\/p>\n

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The problem is that surveillance of innocents in case they should become suspects later is fundamentally incompatible with a democracy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

However, this one didn\u2019t go over well in Europe, even with a decision from the federal European parliament. A full one-third of European states \u2013 nine out of 27 \u2013 refused to implement the preemptive surveillance of innocents, seeing it for what it was. In other states like Germany, it was implemented and immediately struck down by their constitutional court, for good reasons.<\/p>\n

In pushing for acceptance, there was no shortage of Potemkin fa\u00e7ades and misdirection from politicians. An example of the talking points used:<\/p>\n

\u201cTelecom companies have always recorded this\u201d:<\/em> No, they haven\u2019t. In fact, they have been absolutely, positively banned<\/em> from recording any of this, except \u2013 except<\/em> for what was absolutely needed for billing purposes.<\/em> Data retention switched bulk collection of everything from \u201cabsolutely forbidden\u201d to \u201cmandatory\u201d, and that\u2019s not the small change they wanted to pretend it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not government surveillance, it\u2019s the telecoms recording your activity\u201d:<\/em> As if conscripting a corporation into a most unwilling agent of the government made it not the government\u2019s action any more. This is a particularly disgusting way to deflect responsibility for your actions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s necessary to prevent terrorism\u201d:<\/em> Except it was absolutely useless for this, and used in practice only to punish ordinary file-sharing people.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the fence, you had a few diligent politicians like Malte Spitz in Germany, who used his own data to show people<\/a> just how horrible the tracking was \u2013 he made a YouTube video<\/a> showing that he could essentially be followed block by block as he was going about his daily business, and also held a TED Talk<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n

Activists also kept pushing, relentlessly, providing actual data that politicians didn\u2019t want to exist. The German AK Vorrat<\/em> \u2013 loosely translated as \u201cworking group, data retention\u201d \u2013 was one of the more visible ones, and who pointed out that the collected data had only hade a difference in 0.006 percent of criminal cases.<\/p>\n

Zero point zero zero six per cent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In most countries, that\u2019s the equivalent of hiring two or three extra investigative police officers, but at the cost of ordinary police pay instead of the data retention\u2019s cost of about a billion dollars per year (or much more). In other words, the data retention is not even effective in the best of cases \u2013 neither for police operations nor for cost-efficiency. You could have solved something like 1,000 times more additional crimes for the same amount of money, just by hiring regular investigating police officers doing ordinary honest police work instead of treating everybody as a suspect.<\/p>\n

Now, fortunately, it wasn\u2019t just activists pushing back. Since the governments had audaciously told the telecoms operators to foot the entire bill for this, they were not happy<\/em> and had a real financial interest<\/em> in scuttling this construct. That, in the end, is what caused the data retention\u2019s undoing.<\/p>\n

It was billions of dollars of cost for the telcos that was the ultimate driver to end data retention. It was the human rights principles that gave those telcos the right of way in court.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because the telcos challenged the mandate to retain data \u2013 the most customer-focused ones flat out refused to comply, saying \u201ctake us to court\u201d. The government didn\u2019t, but took them to their own authorities instead (the US FCC equivalent), at which point the telcos took those authorities to court.<\/p>\n

And won.<\/em><\/p>\n

Once the courts had ruled that telcos were no longer required to store all metadata, and importantly, absorb all the cost for doing so, data retention was dead in practice. But it would take another couple of years to really drive the point home.<\/p>\n

The legal escalation went all the way to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which is the European equivalent of a Supreme Court. This escalation took a decade in total, but on April 8, 2014, the European Court of Justice ruled<\/a> that the Data Retention Directive \u2013 the EU \u201cfederal law\u201d \u2013 so utterly incompatible with human rights, that the court didn\u2019t just declare it not in effect from that date; the ECJ ruled that it had never<\/em> been in effect, annulling it retroactively<\/em> and effectively erasing it from existence as a mark of shame. The court couldn\u2019t have put its foot down any harder.<\/p>\n

Most politicians in European states at the time noted that while they were now not mandated<\/em> to preemptively violate every citizen\u2019s privacy, there was not yet any ruling banning<\/em> them at a federal level from doing so, and they sought to tweak details in their \u201csafeguards\u201d to keep the constructs. This missed the point of the ECJ entirely:<\/p>\n

The problem isn\u2019t that the data isn\u2019t properly secured, or who has access to it and when. The problem is that surveillance of innocents in case they should become suspects later is fundamentally incompatible with a democracy. It is the core idea<\/em> that is broken and unacceptable, not the details of implementation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This disconnect baffled the courts entirely, as their key point had been made perfectly clear in the 2014 ruling: such a construct is incompatible with a democracy. Why did politicians persist in pretending it was a matter of implementation details, and not the core idea? More importantly, why was this still happening in individual states, even though there was no more federal directive mandating it?<\/p>\n

Hawk politicians in those individual states were arguing that while the European states were no longer required to have data retention at the federal level, they were also not forbidden from having it as a state initiative, and continued it on the state level that had been initiated by the federal law now shredded by the ECJ. This position at the state level could only have come from somebody who didn\u2019t read the fuming verdict from the European Court of Justice in 2014, as it tore up the Data Retention Directive by its roots and lit it ritually ablaze expressed in the strongest anger that judicial language is capable of expressing.<\/p>\n

So in the judicial equivalent of \u201cdidn\u2019t you morons hear us the first time\u201d, the ECJ finally ruled<\/a> in December of 2016 that all European states are utterly forbidden from mandating data retention from its telecommunications providers. This gave the telcos who had been objecting all along wind in their sails, and most of them deleted all the collected data on the same day to trumpet fanfares and advertising. Meanwhile, the politicians who had been advocating these violations of human rights muttered increasingly incoherently, and have not been heard from again so far, six months later.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, while Europe had its turn with the hated Data Retention, it would take the courts twelve years to undo it. Let us at least hope that others can learn from this mistake and not have to do all of it all over again.<\/p>\n

Privacy remains your own responsibility, as always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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