EU Official: IP Is Personal

Roland Perry lists at internetpolicyagency.com
Thu Jan 24 14:06:51 UTC 2008


In article <3DE3808E-5984-4245-8B06-8D3BEB247604 at cisco.com>, Fred Baker 
<fred at cisco.com> writes
>> no fundamental contradiction in the proposition that private sector 
>>information can be mandated to be kept for minimum periods, is 
>>confidential, but nevertheless can be acquired by lawful subpoena.
>
>they are if the records are kept for no private sector purpose, which 
>is the case here. The corollary that is being built on is telco call 
>detail records, which were once used in billing. But the ISPs have no 
>use for the data and storing it costs power, cooling, disk-or-other- 
>storage, and so on. Get an ISP or other data center to give you an idea 
>how many megawatts they go through and what that costs...

You make the assumption that the banks have some business purpose to 
keep data for more than 6 months? My online bank makes it hard for me to 
go back further than that, but I'm sure the regulator insists they do.

Your other objections are just "whose dollars" issue (ignoring the 
public policy debate, but this is a technical list).
-- 
Roland Perry



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