Brussels, 13/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 13 October in Brussels, Tiziano Motti MEP (EPP, Italy) presented his proposal on software that would store data on all traffic entering and leaving a computer (but not the contents), which would enable the police to trace paedophiles who make contact with their victims on “non-traceable” sites (such as Facebook and other social network sites). Motti stated: “Our project will not encroach on private life and we would therefore prefer to call it 'Big Father', which is more reassuring than'Big Brother'”.
The presentation of this project is a response to the criticism against the risk of intrusion into private lives if Directive 24/2006 ( currently being reviewed) were expanded to include the retention of data from social network sites. The MEP's presentation of this software during the conference demonstrated that Motti wanted to show that it was possible to strengthen the directive without encroaching on one's private life.
The technical project was devised by Fabio Ghioni (the former security manager for Telecom Italia who negotiated three years off prison for being associated with certain parties involved in a spy scandal, but who today provides consultancy services and gives conferences) who informed Agence Europe that “if the development of the software is 'open source' (Ed: developed by the internet community) and the storage of data is requested for 'cloud computing' (Ed: the data will be compressed and coded and then stored by private individuals in their computers), the cost of the operation would only be €30 million”. (DD/Stag/transl.fl)