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How long does UPC keep your Internet Browsing Data

  • 08-03-2013 6:34pm
    #1
    IReadUrSoul
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭


    Anyone Know?


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  • #2
    ArthurG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭ArthurG


    They do what now?


  • #3
    Hootanany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    Dwarf porn again


  • #4
    awedf
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭awedf


    IReadUrSoul wrote: »
    Anyone Know?

    EU law requires them to keep records for a minimum of 6 months and a maximum of 2 years, Its upto the ISP as to how long they choose to keep the data. Call them.
    ArthurG wrote: »
    They do what now?

    Every ISP is required to keep logs of traffic not just UPC.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention#European_Union


  • #5
    ArthurG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭ArthurG


    My comment was meant somewhat in jest.....


  • #6
    the world wonders
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭the world wonders


    awedf wrote: »
    Every ISP is required to keep logs of traffic not just UPC.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention#European_Union
    That links to http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006L0024:EN:NOT which does not seem to include web browsing history, just a record of which subscriber was assigned which IP address.
    (2) concerning Internet access, Internet e-mail and Internet telephony:

    (i) the date and time of the log-in and log-off of the Internet access service, based on a certain time zone, together with the IP address, whether dynamic or static, allocated by the Internet access service provider to a communication, and the user ID of the subscriber or registered user;

    (ii) the date and time of the log-in and log-off of the Internet e-mail service or Internet telephony service, based on a certain time zone;
    Logging every single HTTP request for 500 million Europeans for two years would probably be technically infeasible anyway. I opened up the debugger and counted 55 HTTP requests just to load this thread's page.


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