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EU adopts data retention

Posted Dec 14, 2005 18:51 UTC (Wed) by jrigg (guest, #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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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.