Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Data Retention Should Last One Year, US Gov't Tells Australia

Posted by timothy on from the governments-tend-toward-such-things dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "The United States and Australia will enter bilateral talks in an attempt to unify controversial policies that would force internet providers to retain logs on the online habits of citizens. The US has urged Australia to take a moderate approach as it drafts its legislation and said it should not keep logs for longer than a year. Some EU nations keep the logs for as long as five years, although European nations disagree over the need for the plan." And of course, that's also how long we should keep recordings of everyone's phone calls, and copies of their (opened) mail, too.

5 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. This is bullshit by DMJC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am an Australian citizen, and the government should not retain any online data about me. If they don't like that then they can go jump off a cliff. I will not be voting for any political party that supports data retention in the next election.

    1. Re:This is bullshit by ciderbrew · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Cannibalism is fine so long has you have anti murder or bodily harm laws in place.
      I don't think there are many people who will take up cannibalism once legalised, licensed and taxed, which we will need records for (kept for around 50 years). So that's the party for me.

      But I get your point.

  2. How about this? by umaynome · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about if the US just stops telling everyone else what to do?

  3. Tradeoff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure thing, but only after the same is applied to politicians (no immunity allowed) and companies of all sorts, public and private, specially offshore banks. Also recording talks inside government buildings should be mandated, a good Nixon like scandal would be "nice". Maybe then good things that actually benefit the poor and middle working class can happen.

  4. Reasonable Suspicion and Probable Cause by TheSpoom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...are apparently thrown out the window when the magic word "Internet" starts getting used.

    --
    It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
    - E. Debs