French telcos and ISPs will have to retain phone and Internet tra...
French telcos and ISPs will have to retain phone and Internet traffic data for up to one year following official publication Mon. of a law whose imposition has taken more than 4 years, Internet civil liberties group Imaginons un…
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Reseau Internet Solidaire (IRIS) said. Under the new law, ISPs must hold data identifying the user of a service, the terminal used, the destination of traffic, and the date, time and duration of communications. Telephony providers must store data identifying calls’ origins and locations. The requirements debuted in Nov. 2001 for a limited time, then were made permanent in a 2003 law, IRIS said. In Jan., a counter-terror law extended them to give police services access to the data. The 2006 law also requires retention of data on individuals and entities providing public Internet connections in cybercafes, hotels and other public places. In 2002, IRIS sued to stop implementation of the law. The claim remained pending while the various laws emerged, and in 2002 and again this year, the European Commission adopted data retention rules. The EU directive mandates 6-24 months data storage; France picked the longest retention period allowed under national and European legislation, IRIS said. The decree marks the culmination of a strategy seeking ever- wider control of the population for which the fight against terrorism is only a pretext, IRIS said.