Today our representatives of the people decide on the future of secrecy of telecommunication. It is expected that the draft bill about prolonging the retention of communication data will be waved through. As of now all connection data (who phones whom, who travels where with which IP address) will be saved for six months. As usual, this is animated by the best intentions.
The location of mobile phone users when doing their call will be saved, too. With a thus far not known attitude of impudence our politicans ignored experts' advices, defamed opponents of data retention, and claimed its necessity without possibility of any alternative. Because they don't have any idea what they're doing, they are willing to scan just every bit of connection data trusting that evil terrorists will be caught somehow somewhere with these data.

This is plain rubbish. But nobody expects that victims to the Dunning-Kruger effect will develop wisdom. So what will happen next?

It's no surprise that many other parties besides intelligence and public authorities are interested in communication data. Persecution of 'normal' criminals by scanning through the data will be made possible, soon, retention of loaction data means tracing of persons, creating user profiles would be really easy. Law firms spezialised on chasing copyright infringement with easy access to these logfiles will prove that it really is possible to make money with the Internet. Economic miracle made easy! If you put this censorship through application of competition law - the next big thing in Germany - together then you'll see Internet's future in Germany: a playground of censorship where every step of your feet is scanned and every move will be used against you.