Every SMS and phone call on the PSTN of most European countries is already part of a long-term archiving process dating back more than two decades. This legisla

Every SMS and phone call on the PSTN of most European countries is already part of a long-term archiving process dating back more than two decades. This legislation is in part meant to bring purely Internet-based communications into the dragnet, and part just retroactive legal gyrations to publically formalize the already established mass-surveillance of the PSTN.