| Anonymous 2005-12-05, 8:47 pm |
| In article <256f.4394b832.c75e8@localhost>
enzo <enzo@not_the.maffia.net> wrote:
>
> Alex de Joode wrote:
> That would be "popular belief". I am not sure but is
> "data retention" two words?
>
> The word you want is "governments".
>
English isn't Alex's native language. Nobody cares about a couple of
spelling errors.
>
> You say it's not a law but it *forces* ISPs to do something?
> Sounds like a law to me.
The EU is not a super state. It doesn't make laws, but instead
requires it's member states to implement it's own laws that cover what
has been passed by the Parliament.
The EU is going to require that all member states force ISPs to log
email data and certain other things. How those countries implement
this is up to them.
Some countries might choose to do the bare minimum and require that an
ISP only logs To and From headers of emails that pass through their own
mail server for 6 months.
Others might make laws requiring an ISP to log every email sent and
received for 2 years, no matter what server it's passing through.
Webmail, other email providers, everything.
Another might make a law requiring an ISP to log every single packet
of data sent and received. Impossible to do of course, but politicians
never live in the real world.
At this time, we don't know how bad or how over the top these laws are
going to be until the member countries create them. We know what the
bare minimum will be, but not how far each country will take it.
> "will"
> Here you say it is a law? ;)
It will be a law for each country, but a different one for each.
Some countries might say that a home user that runs a mail server is a
service provider for the purposes of that law. That would mean if you
run something like Linux with sendmail, you'd have to log all your
emails.
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