ISP's now storing all email and website visits

[Milvus]

As of today a new EU directive requires that ISP's store sender and recipient details for all email traffic together with data on a user's website visits, for 12 months.
The ISP's are not allowed to monitor content, I suspect security forces can though.

[Milvus]

News report here: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,10000 00085,39637592,00.htm

[barry1010]

It has been covered in the news a lot during the last few months.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1110 484/The-Governments-plan-snoop-emails-creepy-c ostly--wont-work.html

[ACtheTROLL]

most have for years now

bt hold 3-5 years records ... and is rumoured to sell the info to a marketing company ... but all the other providers do it
how do you think sony prosecuted so many people recently?

source ip, destination ip ... mac address ... connection protocol...
ids the machine and what it did .... when