Re: EU decides to keep all connectio ndata for 6 month to 2 years, how to circumvent / elude ?
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Re: EU decides to keep all connectio ndata for 6 month to 2 years, how to circumvent / elude ?

From: Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com>
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 04:00:32 CET

Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> "Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:dnp4c8$3uh$1@news.datemas.de...
>
>>The European parliament has today ratified the storage of
>>all internet, phone, and fax connection data for 6 month to 2 years.
>>Maybe there is a business opportunity for the US here?
>
>
> There is certainly an opportunity for mass storage providers.
> My estimate of the required capacity is about 1 petabyte.
> I suspect they truly had no idea of the magnitude and cost
> of the task that they mandated.
>
>
They are just storing the to and from information, not the entire messages.

Considering its past history, are you certain GCHQ did not know what it
was asking for?

Andrew Swallow
Received on Fri Dec 23 20:10:19 2005