[Ninux-day] A law question

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

The reasoning was not that people can hide when they are small ISPs (believe me, we know *all* ISPs here).
The reasoning is that SMBs can not afford such a tremendous data retention database tracking all connections. This is not acceptable for small businesses. 


Yes, I highly recommend that you check out the regulations as the EU demanded it. If it also applies to SMBs on the EU level, then we might all be lucky.


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On Jan 11, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Mitar wrote:

> Hi!
> 
>> We looked into the law and found that this only applies to 
>> organizations which are not SMBs (small and medium businesses) 
>> anymore (according to EU definitions).
> 
> This was an Austrian law? Because in ours there is no differentiation.
> If this is also in EU law so that we could do something because our
> regulatory agency is saying that our law is in sync with EU law. If it
> is something specific to you then you are lucky. :-)
> 
> But if I think this is strange that Austrian law does not require this
> if I take into the account what it wants to accomplish. Because it gives
> people with bad intentions simple window how to hide: use smaller
> businesses for their ISP. I think this is again an example why such law
> is useless (next to the argument that people who wants to hide will
> always be able, just others lose our freedoms).
> 
> 
> Mitar
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