In message <[email protected] >, Bobby Brewster <[email protected]> writes
>I have read the "DIRECTIVE 2006/24/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE >COUNCIL >of 15 March 2006 you should read the UK transposition... http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111473894/contents >I >first wished to look at what the current situation is rather than what will >hopefully not happen. I've replied to the best of my knowledge (which is extensive, but IANAL) >Let's say that I visit www.yahoo.com. Then I visit mail.yahoo.com. Then >dating.yahoo.com. > >What information is retained? your ISP records that you connected to the Internet, for how long and which IP address you were assigned what you did online is not required to be recorded or retained >What about the retention of e-mail metadata (from, to, subject, time, IP >address)? If I go to mail.yahoo.com and send or receive an e-mail then I >bypass >POP, IMAP, and SMTP as I am using HTTP(S). How can e-mail metadata be retained Yahoo can retain it on their systems (where they generate the moral equivalent of sendmail logs) and those systems are not in the UK. They will in practice provide it to the UK police if served with appropriate paperwork. >How do ISPs record the metadata? using 1s and 0s on spinning media.. this isn't a well-formed question > For example, if I visit www.yahoo.com I would >assume that, since this request goes via my ISP, that they record it. you'd be wrong >How does the retention process work with non-ISPs? Only public communications networks are required to retain data, and then only if the Secretary of State has required them to do so. Who the SoS has required to take action is not published -- but you can assume that the five largest ISPs (which means 90% or so of the populace) are doing retention. -- richard Richard Clayton Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755
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