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from: Tony Williams
date: 2005-12-20 10:35:18
subject: Re: Will Adam & Phil be able to delete their Email?

From: Tony Williams 

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> Maybe in 2 years
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1903618,00.asp
>
> The European Union has passed a contentious data-retention directive
> that requires all telephone and Internet traffic to be logged and
> stored for between six months and two years in order to help combat
> organized crime and terrorism.

Not as scary as it seems at first glance:

> The actual content of communications does not need to be tracked, but
> data that would allow law enforcement officials to find its senders
> does.

If anything, that seems milder than Sarbanes-Oxley.

--
Tony

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