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ISPs in Argentina Must Log Everything

Posted by timothy on from the oh-that-sounds-totally-practical dept.

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.)

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  1. Do they say what granularity? by snorklewacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's a log for ya:

    11 April 2005: (Email Traffic: Detected. Web Traffic: Detected. Chat Traffic: Detected.)
    12 April 2005: (Email Traffic: Detected. Web Traffic: Detected. Chat Traffic: Detected.)
    13 April 2005: (Email Traffic: Detected. Web Traffic: Detected. Chat Traffic: Detected.) ....

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  2. Re:I guess this means... by Everleet · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I guess this means... That the US isn't that bad after all.

    No, it just means somewhere else is worse.

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  3. Mr Bullet, Meet Mr Foot by 4of12 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As I recall, the British proposed some similarly silly rule requiring ISPs to "log everything" about 5 years ago.

    I haven't heard of it since, so I presume the proposal died a whimpering quiet death unclaimed by anyone.

    Free from any requirement to compromise, the Argentine president looks to one-up their old nemesis (of Falklands/Malvinas dispute) by actually trying to revive this rotting corpse of an idea.

    What's next for Argentina? A clipper chip?

    Of course, none of this compares with the tragedy of decades under juntas and the legacy of los desaparecidos.

    Not to mention the economic collapse from naively expecting that IMF policies and democracy can co-exist.

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