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Swedish ISP Deletes Customer ID Info
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A Swedish internet service provider, Bahnhof, has begun deleting customer identification information in order to prevent it from being used as evidence against its customers under Sweden's new legislation against copyright infringement via peer-to-peer file sharing. According to this report on 'The Local,' it is entirely legal for it to do so. The company's CEO, Jon Karlung, is identified as 'a vociferous opponent of the measures that came into force on April 1st,' and is quoted saying that he is determined to protect the company's clients, and that 'It's about the freedom to choose, and the law makes it possible to retain details. We're not acting in breach of IPRED; we're following the law and choosing to destroy the details.'"
Dear god aren't you just a secure little consumer.
-The world would be a better place if everyone had a hoverboard
The reason TPB lost was because the "jury" doesn't know how to interpret the law in this case. It has to go all the way to swedish supreme court to get a sensible outcome.
As it is now murderers get lower punishment than these guys got in sweden.
Don't expect this to end for a couple of years yet.
More to the point, Bahnhof is following a law from 2003 which "states that traffic information should be deleted or anonymized when it is no longer needed to transmit the electronic message." -drstock
A new law is coming which requires ISPs to retain info for x months fairly soon though.
The European Socialist thing to do would be to begin creating reports against all the customers you thought were in violation due to their bandwidth usage.
What this ISP is doing is pro-privacy so it is anti-socialist.