Talk:Telecommunications data retention

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This article appears to me to be mis-titled, since this is about special case of data retention, rather than the wider issue of data retention, which, for example, includes legal obligations to keep accounting, insurance, and other company documents for long periods? Perhaps it should be moved to telecoms data retention? -- Anon.

I see no reason to merge the pages. The other page only consists of a few sentances, at least one of which is inaccurate.

I agree. There is no reason to merge. R Pollack

[edit] Lacks Balance

Extended discussion of arguements against data retention and techniques for avoiding retention but little given space given to arguments for retention (supposing there are some, of course ;)).

There is nothing to prevent somebody making that arguement. --R Pollack 19:56, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Also, discussion of techniques for avoiding 'retention' are about avoiding identification - data is still retained.

--DP.

Please sign your comments DP. --R Pollack 19:59, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Will there be time?

Seems to me that, as with many legislative or regulatory changes, businesses are leaving things too late to comply.

Not sure what the likely penalties will be and how compliance will be tested

[edit] wtf

"if 1 million users at an ISP connected and disconnected every minute and did this 24/7 an ISP would need 11 Tera Bytes of storage, for 365 days of retention"

lol, thx for the useless hypothetical calculation

it averages more like 1 dhcp re-connection per day, meaning two DVD-R disks per year. i think a million subscriber ISP can manage that.

-- Yes, and also, even 11TB is not all that much. A 500GB hard drive costs less than 500$. 11TB adds up to 5500$ - negligible for a million-subscriber ISP. 217.128.17.159 (talk) 21:23, 18 November 2007 (UTC)