[Gllug] New UK push for EU data retention regulations

[Doug Winter]

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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