SWISS ISPS MUST LOG AND STORE CONSUMERS' EMAIL DATA As of April 1, Swiss ISPs will have to keep a log for six months of all the emails sent by their customers. Experts criticize the measure, saying it will be both difficult and costly to implement. http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/apr/01switz.htm
If I understood it correctly, they want to keep "only" the traffic-analysis data, the SMTP server logs, not the messages themselves (though I'd bet they would love to, if it would be reasonably practical). I am curious if this applies even on provately-operated servers; eg, if you aren't cheap and instead of an account you buy a colocation server, with your own mailserver, when the ISP provides only the connection itself, without additional services. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com