Paris terror attacks: ISPs face pressure to share MORE data with governments
Found on The Register on Sunday, 11 January 2015
Government ministers from European states, who met in Paris today in the wake of the atrocious attacks that stunned the French capital's population last week, have called on internet firms to do a better job of cooperating with spooks and police to help them fight terrorism.
The take-away from politicians on both sides of the pond today, once you set aside the posturing about freedom of expression: demands for greater surveillance of citizens' movements online are back on the agenda in a big way.
That was expected. However, more surveillance will do nothing at all, because those three terrorists already were monitored and well-known by the police. It was not the lack of data which let this happen, but mistakes. So, instead of asking for more surveillance, they should fix the way they work with existing data first.