The Local Court in Berlin forbids saving post-session user data for Germany's ministry of justice's web servers. Doing common things like saving user's IP address in logfiles my become illegal in Germany. This could be useful for avoiding bad jokes like this one. The meaning for private web site owners is not yet forseeable. (Source (German))

The German Work Group on Data Retention (Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung) starts a campaign for an "anonymous Internet" and asks webmasters to omit saving IP addresses in logfiles. This group was also accuser in the lawsuit above. I can't see any sense in this campaign. It's not the logfiles that are bad but gouvernmental stalking of user profiles. People have to learn how to protect their privacy by themselves and to become sensible about how and where leaving their traces. What sense would an Internet make that is divided into 'good' servers that don't save your IP and 'bad' ones? Also, proposed solutions to track users by their e-mail address (e.g. to avoid vandalism in wikis and forums) instead of filtering IP addresses is nothing but nonsense. (Source (German))

China arrests cyber-dissident Lu Gengsong. (Source)

Is this Big Brother EU's hour of birth? This investigation by an El País reporter during the European ministers of Interior and Justice was answered with "No" by Minister of Internal Administration Rui Pereira. "But" he added, "there have to be limits for freedom".

Uh, thanks for saying this frankly, Sir! (Source (German))