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And this is bad enough. There are plenty of services that could make anonymity and privacy as part of their offer, and laws such as this make it a moot point.
by radu_floricica 15y ago
And this is bad enough. There are plenty of services that could make anonymity and privacy as part of their offer, and laws such as this make it a moot point.
Worse, it touches defaults. By default, most sites don't keep IP addresses (no point really, for most businesses). Changing this opens so many possibilities for law enforcement, and they are all the kind I'd expect the chinese government to be happy about.
- keithpeter 15y agoThe ISPs can, and in the UK there is one of our lovely 'voluntary agreements' that has the ISP retaining information about web sites visited, but only for 4 days. Police need to move quickly, as they did in the riots last summer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention#United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retenti...