EU's Anti-Terrorist Internet Guidelines A Waste Of Money, Says Group

An EU project to draw up guidelines to reduce terrorist use of the Internet has been described as a total waste of money by independent watchdog EDRi (European Digital Rights).

An EU project to draw up guidelines to reduce terrorist use of the Internet has been described as a total waste of money by independent watchdog EDRi (European Digital Rights). The Clean IT project published its final report on Monday, but the 30-page document "meanders directionlessly from the vague to the vacuous and back again," said EDRi coordinator Joe McNamee on Tuesday.

According to the Clean IT report: "The vast majority of Internet use is legal and beneficial to its users. However, the Internet is also used for illegal purposes." Such insights cost more than ¬325,000 (US$432,737) to the European Commission, which McNamee said is money down the drain. "On the other hand, as the policy behind the document is so bad, we should be happy that the whole project is so incompetent," he added...