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 -- Openminds bvba www.openminds.be Tweebruggenstraat 16 - 9000 Gent - Belgium