[Gllug] New UK push for EU data retention regulations
Doug Winter
doug at pigeonhold.com
Mon Jul 11 17:37:26 UTC 2005
Jason Clifford wrote:
> The reqeust for your logs has to come to you from the police. Your ISP is
> not empowered to demand them from you although they can inform the police
> that you handle your own email so they have no logs for you and the police
> can then visit you separately.
They didn't request the logs, merely that I hang onto them. I'd laugh
in the face of an ISP that demanded my email logs - apart from anything
else, any individual communication of any kind from an ISP would be
pretty shocking - normally you have to beat them round the head before
they'll speak to you :).
> If you are running a mailserver and providing electronic communications
> services to others you must keep the logs showing sender and destination
> details along with dates etc. That's a requirement of either RIP or RIPA
> and failure to do so can result in prosecution.
How long do you need to keep them for? I, like most people I guess,
only keep mine for long enough to diagnose problems, so if they want
something from months ago they'll be SOL.
doug.
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