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Re: Swiss ISPs Required to Log and Store Email for Six Months
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Shaddack)
Wed Apr 9 13:53:39 2003
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 18:41:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Shaddack <shaddack@ns.arachne.cz>
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: <cypherpunks@lne.com>, <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20030408234906.02cc7f98@idiom.com>
> SWISS ISPS MUST LOG AND STORE CONSUMERS' EMAIL DATA
> As of April 1, Swiss ISPs will have to keep a log for six
> months of all the emails sent by their customers. Experts
> criticize the measure, saying it will be both difficult and
> costly to implement.
> http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/apr/01switz.htm
If I understood it correctly, they want to keep "only" the
traffic-analysis data, the SMTP server logs, not the messages themselves
(though I'd bet they would love to, if it would be reasonably practical).
I am curious if this applies even on provately-operated servers; eg, if
you aren't cheap and instead of an account you buy a colocation server,
with your own mailserver, when the ISP provides only the connection
itself, without additional services.
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