It is my opinion, from a privacy standpoint, that an ISP should log traffic on it's systems in one of two cases. The first of which is to comply with Federal, regional, or local law enforcement. Now this is an unfortunate one as we have all witnessed abuses by the police in recent years, especially regarding the largely un-legislated domain of the Internet. The other case is if the ISP has an real proof that thier internal user agreement is being broken, a/o policy is being disregarded by a user. Now this is only a precaution to avoid the first circumstance. Other than this no full traffic logs should be written let alone kept. Especially when regarding the rash of recent ISP break ins over the past 6 months or so it seems that more than just a few sysops would have access to thse files. Well that's just my 2cents -=AlterEgo=- its the nature of of my circuitry
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It is my opinion, from a privacy standpoint, that an ISP should log traffic on it's systems in one of two cases. The first of which is to comply with Federal, regional, or local law enforcement. Now this is an unfortunate one as we have all witnessed abuses by the police in recent years, especially regarding the largely un-legislated domain of the Internet. The other case is if the ISP has an real proof that thier internal user agreement is being broken, a/o policy is being disregarded by a user. Now this is only a precaution to avoid the first circumstance. Other than this no full traffic logs should be written let alone kept. Especially when regarding the rash of recent ISP break ins over the past 6 months or so it seems that more than just a few sysops would have access to thse files. Well that's just my 2cents -=AlterEgo=- its the nature of of my circuitry