Missed News: US Adopts Euro Cyber Crime Proposal ...

[Harmon Seaver]

> n an October 18 statement signed by groups around the world, critics
> said logs based on such archived data had been used to track
> dissidents and
> persecute minorities.
> We urge you not to establish this requirement in a modern
> communications network,'' said a 27-group coalition including the
> American Civil Liberties
> Union, Privacy International and the Internet Society.
>
>  `Police agencies and powerful private interests acting outside of the
> democratic means of accountability have sought to use a closed process
> to establish
> rules that will have the effect of binding legislation,'' the groups
> added.
>
> In its response to these concerns, the Justice Department said there
> was no such retention requirement at issue but a data ``preservation''
> provision.
>
> "Preservation is not a new idea; it has been the law in the United
> States for nearly five years,'' the statement said.

        Preservation of logs is "the law"? That's news to me. I've never
preserved a log over the 4 weeks or so that the default unix config.

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Harmon Seaver, MLIS     Systems Librarian
Arrowhead Library System        Virginia, MN
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