[Politech] Replies to E.U. Parliament voting to force "data retention" on telecom, Net firms [priv]

From: Declan McCullagh (declan@private)
Date: Tue Dec 20 2005 - 19:50:11 PST


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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Politech] E.U. Parliament votes to force "data retention" 
  on telecom, Net firms [priv]
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:19:36 -0500
From: Jonathan Zittrain <z at oii dot ox.ac.uk>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private>

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Declan,

I'm curious whether a US or other foreign market might arise for
turnkey startup-to-shutdown VPN services on European PCs, allowing
those inside Europe to render data retention moot in exchange for a
slight slowdown in network performance (as everything routes through
an overseas server) and the possibility of surveillance or retention
in that third location.  One wonders if any of the member state
implementations of the directive will seek to penalize the provision
or use of such services under an "induce" or other standard.  ...JZ

Jonathan Zittrain
Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation
   Oxford University
Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial
Legal Studies
   Harvard Law School
<http://www.jz.org>



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: [Politech] E.U. Parliament votes to force "data retention" 
on telecom, Net firms [priv]
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:58:31 -0500
From: Richard M. Smith <rms@private>
To: <bendrath@private-berlin.de>
CC: 'Declan McCullagh' <declan@private>,        'Richard M. Smith' 
<rms@private>

Hi Ralf,

Do you have sense how long wireless carriers are typically keeping around
call data today without there being any kind of government mandate?  Also,
with cellphones, location data is available even when a call is not being
made.  Will this location data also have to kept around under the proposed
law?

Richard

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Politech] E.U. Parliament votes to force "data retention" 
on telecom, Net firms [priv]
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:29:09 -0600
From: G.Waleed Kavalec <kavalec@private>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private>
References: <43A041B1.1070508@private>

Basically this will drive business (customers) to the countries with no or
minimum requirements since their vendors will have the least cost to have to
pass on.

(d'Oh!)
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