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any ISP should know what customer owned which IP at a given point in time Should they? Because as far as I can tell, there is no legal requirement to store thi
by morsch 11y ago
any ISP should know what customer owned which IP at a given point in time
Should they? Because as far as I can tell, there is no legal requirement to store this data in the US unless specifically compelled to do so by the government.[0] Is there anything DMCA/safe harbor-related that goes beyond these requirements?
The parameters for mandatory data retention -- if, what, for how long -- are contested in the EU. ISPs should not store anything they aren't legally required to store; and arguably they must not store this kind of data where it is identifiable.
[0] https://www.eff.org/issues/mandatory-data-retention/us https://www.eff.org/issues/mandatory-data-retention/us
- ensignavenger 11y agoI am in the process of starting a small, rural WISP, and I have absolutely no plans to store this data. As you said, I plan to store as little as possible about my customers.
- celticninja 11y agoI think the smaller you are the less you need to store in terms of customer data, this is certainly the case in the EU/UK. The aim being to ensure that regulations are not too onerous on smaller organisations.
- anon4 11y agoOf all the data they could store about me, having a 6-month (or 12 or 24 etc) long cache of "account X had IP Y at time Z" sounds like the most benign. As long as that data is only given out in response to a court order, I don't have a problem with it. ISPs shouldn't be burdened with providing anonymity to their subscribers in the face of the law, even if said law has debatable utility.
- AnthonyMouse 11y agoThere are three states the law can have with respect to something like this: The ISP can be required to keep the information, prohibited from keeping it, or left to their own discretion. The default state is the third one.