Industry laughing stock "Bitkom", an association of IT enterprises in Germany launched yet another ridiculous statement: in general, they back data retention and utilization of user data in social networks (on user permission), especially if crime fighting profits by these measurements. (Source)

That's not very surprising. Bitkom is a lobbyist network and an Internet that retains user's anonymity would not be in their consent. The only good thing I see here is that it's now obvious for the common Internet user that for the most part he's alone in his demand for anonymity in the web and for protecting his personal data. Bitkom's members have a large interest in commercial solutions for massive utilization of user data and are absolutely incurious about the privacy concerns of their customers.