WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Paraguayan Data Traffic Retention Act that is still under consideration in the US Congress would serve to destroy online privacy in Paraguay, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said in a press release.
“It [the legislation] will be another blow for online privacy that takes Paraguayans further down the path towards becoming a repressive surveillance state,” the EFF stated on Thursday.
The bill was introduced in 2014 last year under the “flimsy pretext” that this measure is urgently needed to prevent crime, according to the EFF.
“These weak, but repeated arguments are a tried and tested technique, fomenting a culture of fear of ceaseless war or terrorism, in order to justify arbitrary and totalitarian incursions on civil liberties,” the EFF said.
The proposal has already passed the US Senate, but was postponed by the US House of Representatives for eight more days.
