[102067] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Thu Jan 24 09:59:10 2008
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:06:51 +0000
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DE3808E-5984-4245-8B06-8D3BEB247604@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In article <3DE3808E-5984-4245-8B06-8D3BEB247604@cisco.com>, Fred Baker
<fred@cisco.com> writes
>> no fundamental contradiction in the proposition that private sector
>>information can be mandated to be kept for minimum periods, is
>>confidential, but nevertheless can be acquired by lawful subpoena.
>
>they are if the records are kept for no private sector purpose, which
>is the case here. The corollary that is being built on is telco call
>detail records, which were once used in billing. But the ISPs have no
>use for the data and storing it costs power, cooling, disk-or-other-
>storage, and so on. Get an ISP or other data center to give you an idea
>how many megawatts they go through and what that costs...
You make the assumption that the banks have some business purpose to
keep data for more than 6 months? My online bank makes it hard for me to
go back further than that, but I'm sure the regulator insists they do.
Your other objections are just "whose dollars" issue (ignoring the
public policy debate, but this is a technical list).
--
Roland Perry
