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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm a little surprised to hear that there's no legal requirement for ISPs to keep records as there is (isn't there?) for telephone companies. One might imagine that ISP's records could be useful for all sorts of criminal investigations.
I think (but I'm open to correction if I'm wrong) that UK ISP's are required to keep records for a certain period of time - the figure of 6 months rings a bell.
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I think it's 12 months, they've to keep billing data, times you connected/disconnected from the service and IPs assigned. IIRC the EU basically extended the existing telephone data retention laws to apply to parts of an ISPs service.
There was talk about also logging every site you visit (just the domain part) and the source/destination of every email you send or connection you make. I'm not sure if that was put into practice though or if it's still being fought by ISPs. I am pretty sure that they at the very least retain assigned IPs though.
A quick google suggest the US looked at a similar law in 2011, not sure if it's in place or not now though, anyone in the US know?
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security...bill-40093559/