Europe's Secret Plans To Spy On All Email
from the so-it-goes dept
It seems that folks in Europe have been working out a secret plan to make ISPs be forced to record all information about emails and web use for a period of five years. They’re also required to keep copies of everyone’s passwords. While the article talks about how this is quite the privacy violation (and it is) and possibly a huge security issue, I also wonder about how this is going to impact all of those ISPs that need to record and store this data. That’s a lot of data they’re suddenly going to be forced to record and hang onto. Also, I don’t really see how it helps to simply store more data, which will only make it more difficult to find the important data.
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Kindred spirit?
“Also, I don’t really see how it helps to simply store more data, which will only make it more difficult to find the important data.”
OhMyGawd – there’s someone else out there who understands this concept?
Poorly though out laws...
I’ve heard about the British version of this law in NTK for a while now. It seems totally unenfocable — what happens when the ISP goes bankrupt? And keeping the password is a total joke which decreases privacy alot with zero improvement in secracy. I see this will give rampant rise to Steganography — you can always claim that the low order bits in the image are just noise and not you secret message — who’s to disprove it?