Australian Gov't Tries To Force Telcos To Store User Metadata For 2 Years

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 30, 2014 @01:28AM from the authority-problem dept.

AlbanX writes The Australian Government has introduced a bill that would require telecommunications carriers and service providers to retain the non-content data of Australian citizens for two years so it can be accessed — without a warrant — by local law enforcement agencies. Despite tabling the draft legislation into parliament, the bill doesn't actually specify the types of data the Government wants retained. The proposal has received a huge amount of criticism from the telco industry, other members of parliament and privacy groups. (The Sydney Morning Herald has some audio of discussion about the law.)

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Yea no... by Charliemopps · 2014-10-30 01:39 · Score: 5, Funny

I've worked in the industry for almost 20yrs.
It's not possible. Even just storing DHCP data to meet DMCA requests for a very small telco is gigabytes per day. Add their actual traffic to that? The cost of the storage space would make running an ISP totally unprofitable. Even if you did find a way to fund such a thing, how long do you think it would take a group like anonymous to launch on application that just pinged random IP's all day long? It would almost immediately crush the system.