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terça-feira, agosto 23, 2005
EU data retention plan set for "climactic battle"
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A draft of the EC's proposal was recently obtained by the European Digital Rights group, EDRI. The EC wants calls and email traffic to be retained for six months to a year, while member states proposed up to 48 months. The council plan wants all web addresses people use to be logged but the EC draft makes no mention of this. More than 27,000 people have already signed an EDRI online anti-logging petition.
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Telecom firms outside the European Union also worry a lengthy retention period would become the norm for them as well.
Stephen Trotman, a senior vice president at US carrier industry group CompTel in Washington, said: "What benefit is only half a call record? If American carriers are either originating or terminating an international call, then they are in fact covered by this requirement. What's going to happen is that the additional cost of retaining, storing and sorting that data is going to be shifted to the consumer. The consumers will pay for their own privacy to be invaded."
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A study by Dutch Erasmus University shows in nearly all 65 cases where traffic data was useful in combating crime, the police got the information they needed from data going back three months - the typical period data is already stored by telecom firms for billing purposes.
The EU's Alvaro said: "Three months in general should be enough for storing data."
German industry bodies BDI, Bitkom and VATM said a solid and adequate impact study of the proposals has not been done and that any retention period must not exceed six months.
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A draft of the EC's proposal was recently obtained by the European Digital Rights group, EDRI. The EC wants calls and email traffic to be retained for six months to a year, while member states proposed up to 48 months. The council plan wants all web addresses people use to be logged but the EC draft makes no mention of this. More than 27,000 people have already signed an EDRI online anti-logging petition.
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Telecom firms outside the European Union also worry a lengthy retention period would become the norm for them as well.
Stephen Trotman, a senior vice president at US carrier industry group CompTel in Washington, said: "What benefit is only half a call record? If American carriers are either originating or terminating an international call, then they are in fact covered by this requirement. What's going to happen is that the additional cost of retaining, storing and sorting that data is going to be shifted to the consumer. The consumers will pay for their own privacy to be invaded."
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A study by Dutch Erasmus University shows in nearly all 65 cases where traffic data was useful in combating crime, the police got the information they needed from data going back three months - the typical period data is already stored by telecom firms for billing purposes.
The EU's Alvaro said: "Three months in general should be enough for storing data."
German industry bodies BDI, Bitkom and VATM said a solid and adequate impact study of the proposals has not been done and that any retention period must not exceed six months.
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Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
posted by CMT, 11:38 da manhã
