According to the British Home Office security minister, Vernon Coaker, the EUs Data Retention Directive, allowing the respective countries to store logs of people's internet traffic, e-mailheaders, telephone calls and text messages, does not go far enough.
One thing the UK government now is considering is also monitoring and storing all user communication on social-networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo.
More here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10199107-83.html?tag=nl.e757
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:53:55PM +0100, Andreas Tolf Tolfsen wrote:
According to the British Home Office security minister, Vernon Coaker, the EUs Data Retention Directive, allowing the respective countries to store logs of people's internet traffic, e-mailheaders, telephone calls and text messages, does not go far enough.
One thing the UK government now is considering is also monitoring and storing all user communication on social-networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo.
More here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10199107-83.html?tag=nl.e757
All of those use HTTP which is already covered by the directive, IIRC (or am I thinking of a draft?)
Rui
* Rui Miguel Silva Seabra:
All of those use HTTP which is already covered by the directive, IIRC (or am I thinking of a draft?)
The directive does not require indiscriminate logging of HTTP traffic. And even if it did, you'd need application-specific payload extractors, not HTTP-level logging, to keep track of what's going on.
I think we had previous discussions about this matter. Some think that Facebook et al. will never share the data they store (legally or illegally), so they argue that the data needs to be preserved as it enters or emerges from Facebook et al. The data is not considered privacy-sensitive because Facebook et al.'s advertizing clients and U.S. law enforcement presumably have access to it (in some form or other).
On the other hand, it might be a better idea to make sure that companies who do business in the EU comply with requests from national law enforcement, like a company located in the EU would do.