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EU adopts data retention
EU adopts data retention
Posted Dec 14, 2005 18:51 UTC (Wed) by jrigg (subscriber, #30848)Parent article: EU adopts data retention
Given that 80% of email traffic is spam, this presumably means that ISPs are going to have to swallow the expense of storing data that is 80% useless.
I can see a lot of small ISPs going out of business.
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EU adopts data retention
Posted Dec 14, 2005 19:04 UTC (Wed) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]
I can see a lot of small ISPs going out of business.
...which, really, may be part of the goal of the legislation, if one is going to be cynical enough.
-Rob
EU adopts data retention
Posted Dec 14, 2005 19:14 UTC (Wed) by ninjaz (guest, #2083) [Link]
Even for large ISP's, saving all traffic that goes through high-speed lines for a period of six months sounds insanely expensive.
It will be interesting to see if Europeans will be forced to abandon high-speed Internet lines to go back 28.8Kbps modems which can be more affordably logged over that long of a period.