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ISPs in Argentina Must Log Everything
hjf writes "According to a new presidential decree, and effective July 31, 2005, telecom carriers in Argentina will have to log every activity, including Internet chats, website visits, e-mails, phone calls, etc, made in Argentina. The data must be stored for 10 years, and must be available to the police and intelligence agencies within one hour, 24 hours a day. The telecom companies must pay for 'everything': software, hardware, and human resources, and will be required to use state-of-the-art technology as soon as it is available. This news was known already in specialized circles, but only yesterday it was published in major media. This is causing outrage among legislators and businessmen. Lawyers claim that it violates privacy laws and Constitutional rights (article 14), and the 'presumptive innocence principle' (innocent until proven guilty)." (The Fish comes in handy yet again.)
You can't tunnel, 'cos the ISP can't allow you to. From Par. (e): "ISPs shall not, under any circumstances, incorporate networking architecture, technology or equipment that would limit remote interception of communications as disposed by legally established procedures. They shall not incorporate services that would hinder, limit or diminish, in any way, the retrieval of the interception, and any and all information as consigned herewith."
It's wide and far-reaching because it's absolutely ill-conceived, with no regards to what's actually possible, and more imortant, what's already not possible at all, given the "technological means" already in widespread use.
I'm sick, I can't read anymore.