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German ISP Forced To Delete IP Logs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the next-the-request-will-be-used-as-evidence dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A German federal court decided today that T-Online, one of the largest ISPs in Germany, was obligated to delete all IP logs of a customer upon request to guarantee their privacy. From the article: 'The decision (German) does not mean that T-Online is now obliged to delete all their IP-logs, the customers first need to complain. But, if they ask T-Online to delete their IP-logs, the ISP has no other choice than to comply. A lawyer from Frankfurt already sketched a sample letter (German) to make this process easier.'"

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  1. Motherfucking bureaucratic world... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why the fuck does a letter need to be sent in order for the logs to be deleted? Why the fuck are these piss-ant kind of logs created in the first place? Why the fuck can't people have privacy automatically?

  2. Re:The way it should be. by harlows_monkeys · · Score: 0, Troll
    There's not a chance in hell that anything like this would ever happen in the United States. I hope it works for the Germans

    Well, if by "works for the Germans" you mean "every spammer and phisher and kiddie porn trader and net stalker and all the other net scum switch to German ISPs, until Germany gets blackholed by the rest of the world", then yeah, I think it will work out for them.

  3. you insensit1ve Clod! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And pe8sonal