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Originally Posted by obvious
It seemed absurd that we only get to keep 90 days (although for me it seems more like 30 days) of emails. [...]
I argued that it's useful to be able to store internet shopping receipts / passwords (at your own risk) or basically anything that you'd like to keep a record of by creating a folder "saved items" in your ntlworld email account.
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I don't see what's absurd about it.
If you want to keep copies of anything, use your own storage space for them or (better still) print them out so you have a hard copy that's won't be lost if eg you have a disk crash.
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Now the Home Secretary is urging ISP's to retain email data for 6 months in order to track terrorists.
Well hey, ntl, perhaps if you're going to store the data anyway you can at least let us have access to our own emails (you bunch of cheap ********  ?
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Well firstly, supposedly it's only e-mail "header" data that is stored (ie who wrote to whom) not the actual contents of the mail, however, secondly I don't think that such an obligation should be placed on ISPs because not only will it increase costs but also because under the European Convention on Human Rights, any such data kept should be only what is "necessary and proportionate" not a catch-all "just in case".