Might this be another crankish Jim Choate theory? I think the law is pretty clear: * For most ISPs and dot com sites, there is no general duty to preserve logs for five years, or for any time at all. Gramm-Leach-Bliley may change this when it take affect next year for sites dealing with cc#s; I haven't read up on the specifics. * Common carriers are regulated closely by the FCC and states. (Think: Approval required before raising prices.) ou don't want to be one. -Declan On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 06:28:39PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, John Young wrote:
The citation was given as the basis of the news story. And it shows that there is no five year retention requirement, only that the law is five years old.
What law?
Actually if you go look at the bottem of that news piece you'll find a direct reference to CALEA (which I might add says nothing about log retention for 'commen carrier' or otherwise).
I'd still like somebody to explain what law was in reference with respect to requiring log retention for any period, irrespective of how old the law is.
Note, this has NOTHING to do with a court order or request from a LEA and at no point in that article was that claimed.
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