[ILUG] Completely loo-lah law requiring retention of e-mail headers for 3 years

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Rory Browne wrote:

> It seems to mean the ISP's will have to filter + log all traffic on
> Port 25 going through their networks. Most companies, especially
> banks, and government agencies, would have their own mail servers.

Quoting the directive:

  "In particular, as regards the retention of data
   relating to Internet e-mail and Internet telephony, the obli-
   gation to retain data may apply only in respect of data
   from the providers’ or the network providers’ own services."

I.e. no logging of traffic is needed, it applies only at layer-7 (as 
another poster put it).

Further, and I might be wrong, but isn't this discussion a couple of 
years too late? I thought Ireland had already implemented 
data-retention laws long before any directive (ISTR a discussion here 
about it) - Ireland already complies with it.

The EU tends to be about standardisation, so if you're worried about 
a directive then the chances are you're already too late for some 
noticeable (perhaps significant) chunk of the EU - perhaps the chunk 
you live in (as was the case with the EU DMCA directive wrt Ireland, 
and, I think, wrt directive).

regards,
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