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Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal

  • From: Roland Perry
  • Date: Thu Jan 24 09:59:03 2008

In article <[email protected]>, Fred Baker <[email protected]> writes
no fundamental contradiction in the proposition that private sector information can be mandated to be kept for minimum periods, is confidential, but nevertheless can be acquired by lawful subpoena.

they are if the records are kept for no private sector purpose, which is the case here. The corollary that is being built on is telco call detail records, which were once used in billing. But the ISPs have no use for the data and storing it costs power, cooling, disk-or-other- storage, and so on. Get an ISP or other data center to give you an idea how many megawatts they go through and what that costs...

You make the assumption that the banks have some business purpose to keep data for more than 6 months? My online bank makes it hard for me to go back further than that, but I'm sure the regulator insists they do.

Your other objections are just "whose dollars" issue (ignoring the public policy debate, but this is a technical list).
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Roland Perry