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Originally Posted by nidave
wouldnat that break the Data protection act.
and Imaging kepping logs of 1 Million + people . would run into 100'g of GB's per Day.
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To hold the data is not in breach of the DPA, however to release it without your consent to a third party is...
Unfortunately, to release this data to the government and the police is perfectly ok.
IIRC the main reason for this was to aid in investigations into terrorists/paedophiles/other criminals that were conducting their operations over the internet.
It was quite common to identify a person conducting illegal activity, but not to have enough hard evidence, as they cleaned down their computers to well.
If the data was logged by the ISP, they would not have the ability to clean up their trail.
There was a huge uproar from the Privacy groups, and from the ISPs about the practicality of this - however the last I heard on the rumour mill was that they can instruct an ISP to begin logging a specific user, providing a court order has been issued (basically like telling a bank to record all transactions on an account where fraud is suspected).