Fredag 17 august 2007 12:27 skrev Dave Howorth:
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Hi list,
- as I'm going to use OpenSuSE for this one, so it's not completely off topic. I think.
- In Denmark a new law is being enforced by the 15th. of September this year. It states that all internet activity must be logged, if you run a hotel or similar. I do.
Do you also have data privacy laws in Denmark? If so, I would think you need to be quite careful with guarding access to these logs. If you have professional societies in Denmark (Dansk Dataforening or Dansk Selskab for Datalogi perhaps?) they may have guidance on how to comply with the law.
Cheers, Dave
All technical aspects aside, I do agree. A law like this is terribly problematic. It opens up for who knows what. It does require a court order for the police to get to the records. But still... It's the same with your mobile cell phone. The telephone companies are recording of your whereabouts (roaming), records of which have been used in trivial cases (not just murder or something equally serious) in dahish courts. It is problematic, also because the department of justice and the majority of politicians don't know anything about what they are doing technically. I bet you could get certain politicians to catch the idea of taking a backup of the internet overnight... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org