Excerpts from Jan de Groot's message of 2011-03-30 17:52:00 +0200:
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 17:27 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
If you live in a civilized country in Europe data retention either is already in place or will be rather soon. The US might have a different approach but I doubt the net result is much different.
Those regulations are about email only. Providers have to store recipient and sender for every mail that passes their network and they have to store it for a long time, depending on what country implemented the rules.
I doubt that: "The Directive as adopted covers fixed telephony, mobile telephony, Internet access, Internet email and Internet telephony." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention#European_Unio...