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Originally Posted by Nopanic
VM do, they have to keep them for a certain amount of time by Law and for some odd reason that amount of time is very restricted information .. I had to agree to some weird things before I was told .. one of which is to never kick a cat ..
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If its the retentions period in the 2009 regs then it is 12 months. I know there are proposals to extend it (well, Labour were pushing for it) and knowing how convoluted our legal system is there are probably past laws that have their own time periods defined. I think the secrecy thing you are referring to is the actual warrants/interception orders. Spilling the beans about these = 5 years in jail.
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Originally Posted by Masque
That is rather different to what we are allowed to do under the regulations as a telecommunications company.
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The act makes no distinctions for sector other than a few narrow exceptions.
Phoning someone, asking if it is mr blah blah and then explaining that their interweb will be suspended because VM suspect they have a virus/trojan/open proxy does not reveal any details that the DPA covers.
I suspect VM are just being overly cautious. There was a time they used to cold-call you and simply ask you for your account password, but would not explain why they were calling until you gave them the password. Which was bizarre and got them nowhere as it sounds very much like a scam. The newsgroups used to be full of people worrying about these sort of calls.