[88620] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fed Bill Would Restrict Web Server Logs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Louwers)
Tue Feb 14 10:39:18 2006
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:38:39 +0100
From: Frank Louwers <frank@openminds.be>
To: "David G. Andersen" <dga+@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: "Jon R. Kibler" <Jon.Kibler@aset.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20060214153319.GA17890@cs.cmu.edu>
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:33:19AM -0500, David G. Andersen wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:47:50AM -0500, Jon R. Kibler scribed:
> > >
> > > http://www.politechbot.com/docs/markey.data.deletion.bill.020806.pdf
> > >
> > > to delete information about visitors, including e-mail addresses, if the
> > > data is no longer required for a "legitimate" business purpose.
> > >
>
> > Original posting from Declan McCullagh's PoliTech mailing list. Thought
> > NANOGers would be interested since, if this bill passes, it would impact
> > almost all of us. Just imagine the impact on security of not being able
> > to login IP address and referring page of all web server connections!
>
> Call me weird, but I fail to see where the scary teeth lie in such
> a bill. First of all, it's phrased very abstractly and would hopefully
> have its language clarified by the time it escapes a committee. Second,
> the bill is fairly clear about the meaning of personal information, and
> it doesn't include things like IP addresses in its examples; the latter
> would be a matter for a court to decide, and it's not clear cut at all:
Strange thing is that we have exact the opposite here in Europe. There
is a new bill that has been passed that forces us to keep al logs (mail
and web) for at least 1 or 2 years.
Vriendelijke groeten,
Frank Louwers
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