Sunday, 15 March 2009
They want to know everything that we do...
All ISPs across the EU are from today forced to store data on their customers for up to one year under the EU Data Retention Directive. This data will include names, dates of birth, billing addresses and credit-card information, as well as IP addresses and session data. The EU and its constituent governments would probably claim that the police and intelligence agencies need this data to fight terrorism and serious crime. Of course in reality the information will probably be used to criminalise or embarrass those who the EU and constituent governments want to target.
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That is not completely accurate.
This particular legislation does not require "date of birth", nor any "session data" (in the sense of session cookies, username and password etc. etc.) only the time and date of a dialup connection (meaningless for "always on" internet leased lines or broadband)
The new Regulations do no appear to come into force for another 3 weeks:
See the Draft Statutory Instrument:
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The Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009
Made
Coming into force 6th April 2009
[...]
Obligation to retain communications data
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(5) No data revealing the content of a communication is to be retained in pursuance of these Regulations.
4.—(1) It is the duty of a public communications provider to retain the communications data specified in the following provisions of the Schedule to these Regulations—
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PART 3 INTERNET ACCESS, INTERNET E-MAIL OR INTERNET TELEPHONY
Data necessary to trace and identify the source of a communication
11.—(1) The user ID allocated.
(2) The user ID and telephone number allocated to the communication entering the public telephone network.
(3) The name and address of the subscriber or registered user to whom an Internet Protocol (IP) address, user ID or telephone number was allocated at the time of the communication.
Data necessary to identify the destination of a communication
12.—(1) In the case of internet telephony, the user ID or telephone number of the intended recipient of the call.
(2) In the case of internet e-mail or internet telephony, the name and address of the subscriber or registered user and the user ID of the intended recipient of the communication.
Data necessary to identify the date, time and duration of a communication
13.—(1) In the case of internet access—
(a) The date and time of the log-in to and log-off from the internet access service, based on a specified time zone,
(b) The IP address, whether dynamic or static, allocated by the internet access service provider to the communication, and
(c) The user ID of the subscriber or registered user of the internet access service.
(2) In the case of internet e-mail or internet telephony, the date and time of the log-in to and log-off from the internet e-mail or internet telephony service, based on a specified time zone.
Data necessary to identify the type of communication
14. In the case of internet e-mail or internet telephony, the internet service used.
Data necessary to identify users’ communication equipment (or what purports to be their equipment)
15.—(1) In the case of dial-up access, the calling telephone number.
(2) In any other case, the digital subscriber line (DSL) or other end point of the originator of the communication.
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The European Union aspect of this is a bit misleading as well, since it was not Malta or Poland or Luxembourg etc. which forced this through the EU bureaucracy and the European Parliament, but the disgraced Home Secretary Charles Clarke, when the UK was last in charge of the rotating presidency of the Council of Europe.
We already have almost identical law already on the statute book since the Anti Terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001 Part 11 Retention of Communications Data, which set up a "voluntary" data retention scheme, with the ability to convert it into a mandatory one at any time - the Home Office just never succeeded in properly agreeing the exact details and the financial compensation with the telcos and ISPs.
Is there a political solution? I really do not see one.
Until it all kicks off I support the BNP, thats the party which the elites hate the most. They must be doing something right.
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