He went on to say that "with the three-strikes laws, we are giving private companies sweeping rights to monitor indiscriminately every citizen's activities on the internet in order to catch relatively few violators among the millions of innocent users, something that we refuse to allow even to our police when fighting terrorism".
S. Lambrinidis arī brīdina, ka, ieviešot šāda veida noteikumus, privātiem uzņēmumiem tiek dotas tiesības neierobežoti pārraudzīt visu interneta lietotāju aktivitātes, lai gan pārkāpēju ir salīdzinoši maz.