ISP firms start storing user data

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7985339.stm

Details of user e-mails, website visits and net phone calls will be stored by internet service providers (ISPs) from Monday under an EU directive.

The plans were drawn up in the wake of the London bombings in 2005.

ISPs and telecoms firms have resisted the proposals while some countries in the EU are contesting the directive.

Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said it was a "crazy directive" with potentially dangerous repercussions for citizens.
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Now this is dangerous.
 
It is an EU directive, meaning that this is the minimum that the member states need to do in order to comply, they can actually do more.

For example the UK has been doing this and more for a while now. 95% of all UK internet traffic is monitored and has been for some time.
 
That numbskull stephen conroy down in Australia will think this is a wonderful idea - probably tack it onto his internet filtering bill somehow. I just hope no-one from our DOC reads any of this. It will give them ideas way beyond their station...
 
All that's going to happen is that an encrypted infrastructure on top of the internet will be created. Besides, just because there's a log indicating someone browsed a site from a specific IP doesn't mean that the account holder was doing the surfing. Shared networks, corporate networks, hacked WiFi routers, open relays and proxies etc etc.

It's really pointless imo.
 
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