As if the few huge US corporations and their commercial clients don't already do all that anyway.

At least the EU does say why: crime detection, and that is perfectly understandable.

To be honest, whilst I find the EU proposal deeply worrying, I fear the Internet service companies, advertising-agencies and data-resellers much more than government or law agencies.

The biggest danger though is probably from hackers.

Yikes

If someone is going back door on me I expect dinner and a movie first. I have standards.

Who cares. The Chinese have our profiles anyway, Tik toc, So does Sainsburys and good old Amazon.

I cc: the FBI on all my emails already. No sense in making it difficult for them...

How about , no

Time to go back back in time to the 1800s where there was privacy.

But did you know in the countries of the seven eyes (look it up) the VPN services turn over records to the government anyways. Without customers knowledge or consent

some people love freedom. like the freedom to say whats on your mind. and well....... some people dont.

That is basically what they do in China to control peoples access to information they don't want them to have.

Done. See https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14680-Impact-assessment-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-/F3566090_en

I doubt that it will have any impact.

Everyday: news of hacked institutions and or potential digital attacks on infrastructure..

Our fearless leaders: we need to digitalise everything into one central database …. 🤔

Yet another reason for not being in the EU.

The new iron curtain. Why is that government so paranoid?