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Hey, noticed the red and white whatchamacallit to the right is gone? That's right, the online petition (although still functional, I just checked) has closed. Any last-minute additions: sign here

I'm sure one day in the future Min Yi is going to find me old-fashioned. I just hope it won't be because I signed an online petition against data retention because it's an invasion of privacy :-) Or perhaps that's still better than "you signed an online petition on what was that again?"

From the European Digital Rights (EDRI) newsletter:

The EDRI and XS4ALL petition against data retention has attracted 58.000 signatures, of which over 21.000 from the Netherlands (where the campaign was launched), almost 7.000 from Germany and almost 6.000 from Finland. Runners-up in the daily country count are Bulgaria (over 3.000), Sweden and Spain (over 2.000 each), Austria (over 1.750). France, the UK, Italy, Belgium, the United States and Slovenia have each contributed over a 1.000 signatures.

85 organisations and companies have signed in support of the petition. The petition is available in 21 languages, with Portuguese as the last addition.

The campaign closed today. The petition will be offered to the European Parliament, to the chairman of the LIBE committee and to rapporteur Alexander Alvaro on Wednesday afternoon 23 November, the day before the important vote on the amended Alvaro report.