Web surfers to pay for anti-terror plans

mkpdavies · 17-07-2005, 02:25 AM

http://news.independent.co.uk/busine...icle299587.ece

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The price of surfing the web may have rise to cover the costs of new anti-terrorism laws, internet providers have warned.

The Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, persuaded European leaders last week to agree to rules requiring internet and telecoms companies to retain data for around a year.

Great for tech companies, bad for the consumer who has to pay for it. Another stealth tax, to defend us from terror that our government made us a target of.

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AOL believes that this would cost it at least £23m to implement and £8m-a-year to maintain. The company said it was too early to estimate how this would affect customers' bills.

MADNESS

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The industry is also concerned that the European agreement on data storage may prove unworkable if the new laws are pushed though by EU ministers instead of the European Parliament.

So much for democracy in the EU.

tyke · 17-07-2005, 09:52 AM

Before the elections, I read that NL were considering imposing a licence fee on the internet, which would work like a TV licence; renewable annually.

Wonder if this is the ideal excuse for NL to bring it up now?

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17-07-2005, 09:52 AM	#2 (permalink)
tyke Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 240	Before the elections, I read that NL were considering imposing a licence fee on the internet, which would work like a TV licence; renewable annually. Wonder if this is the ideal excuse for NL to bring it up now?