Excerpts from Jan de Groot's message of 2011-03-30 17:52:00 +0200: > On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 17:27 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > > If you live in a civilized country in Europe data retention either is > > already in place or will be rather soon. The US might have a different > > approach but I doubt the net result is much different. > > Those regulations are about email only. Providers have to store > recipient and sender for every mail that passes their network and they > have to store it for a long time, depending on what country implemented > the rules. I doubt that: "The Directive as adopted covers fixed telephony, mobile telephony, Internet access, Internet email and Internet telephony." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention#European_Union
