EU: NGO Letter to EU Commissioners rejecting the Directive on mandatory data retention http://www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jun/ngo-dataret-letter.pdf

"We believe that such invasive surveillance of the entire population is unacceptable. With a data retention regime in place, sensitive information about social contacts (including business contacts), movements and the private lives (e.g. contacts with physicians, lawyers, workers councils, psychologists, helplines, etc) of 500 million Europeans is collected in the absence of any suspicion."