The 2. December Justice and Home Affairs Council has actually managed to come up with an even more repulsive police state proposal on the data retention issue than the original bad idea. Now they want not only the data that is legal to store under Article 6 of the 2002 telecommunication data protection directive. Instead, all service providers will be obliged to store traffic data from a list the police dictates them. Service providers will lose the freedom to decide what they want to retain.
The good thing about this kind of extremism is that it will be all the more difficult to pass (this kind of measure needs unanimous support from all 25 Member States under Article 34 of the Treaty on the European Union).
As EDRI reports here, all German parties are opposed to this outrageous wholesale surveillance of all Internet users around the clock.
And one vote against is enough.