We need to avoid this alleged respect for privacy leading to the establishment of two systems or a system with two different s
ets of rules, which would mean, first and foremost, excessive protection of the citizens’ privacy and laying down excessively restrictive rules in the private sector, while leaving the Member States, on the other hand, absolutely free to intervene for their own purposes in the lives of the citizens themselves, fo
r example requiring electronic communication service providers to perform tasks which almost amount
...[+++]to police work.