The giant data warehouse just doesn’t care what European data protection officials think.

Here’s why, courtesy of The Register:

“Remember the Data Retention Directive comes out of the security side of government, not the data protection side,” said Fleischer. “So it’s interesting to me to hear what an official from the data protection world thinks about data retention, but it’s like asking somebody who works for the railroad what they think of airline regulation. It’s just not their field.”

Railroad and airlines? Strange. Sounds more like the old saying about foxes in the hen house…

“As a very successful fox company, we feel that chickens are not authorized to comment on security. It is just not their field.”

Back to your coop now, all of you.