The place to control what is displayed on a home computer screen is in the home. It's up to parents -- not the government -- to control what kids see online.
The common idea that the cost of data storage is rapidly becoming zero is plainly wrong when you are talking about terabytes of data. It will cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to securely store the data in usable form. Europeans will end up paying a great deal more for communications so their privacy can be undone.
The Internet is an agreement to use a small number of communications protocols, and it needs almost no governance at all.
This is the camel's nose under the tent for using search engines and all kinds of data aggregators as surveillance tools.
They should definitely abide by their privacy policies. The irony is rich.
Like most things it's a mixed bag.
What we're seeing is just the start of a trend in which government prosecutors will use (Internet) search results in criminal investigations.
All the people who thought that Europe was a haven of privacy need to think again. Europe is making great strides toward building a corporate-government surveillance axis with this mandate. This untargeted, general warrant to search the population is probably appealing to law enforcement interests.
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