After fully reading the linked article (thank you, mrsparky), why does this sound like another bad idea with Sony at the helm? Let's see: compulsorily force European telecommunication companies to retain more and more private records (= more cost to provide infrastructure), allow these media companies access to that private data (probably without probable cause), allow use of all of it in other cases (again without writ more than likely), and, the good part, sit around waiting for some unscrupulous shady type to abscond with twenty million private records on tape, disk, laptop, whatnot. Not that this isn't an issue already, but one knows what they say about more data. Noone expects the Information Inquisition!

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

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