Second Swedish ISP Starts Scrubbing IP Addresses 92
Marzubus writes "Tele2, a popular Swedish ISP, has started to remove IP addresses from its logs. This is the second ISP in Sweden to adopt this new privacy protection strategy." We discussed not long ago when another ISP, Bahnhof, started doing the same. Perhaps this is the corporate equivalent of joining the Pirate Party.
Incorrect. (Score:1, Informative)
The first ISP, Barnhof, did not start doing this, they have been doing this since 96 (iirc).
Actually there are a few more than two. (Score:5, Informative)
This behaviour is not a circumvention of the IPPRED law but an enforcement of law of electronic communication that states that customerinformation that is not needed for daily operations must be erased as soon as possible.
This law in itself nullifies the IPRED law.
Didn't Bahnhof do this all along? (Score:4, Informative)
As opposed to starting just recently. At least that's what one Slashdotter told us [slashdot.org] last time.
And it's "Bahnhof", not "Barnhof". Hehe.
Incorrect.2 (Score:5, Informative)
Eight ISPs and counting(?) (Score:3, Informative)
Data retention time is also interesting (Score:4, Informative)
Another interesting aspect in this whole IPRED mess is the amount of time the other ISPs save their IP-address data.
According to the IPRED law it is up to the lower court to order an ISP to turn over the subscriber information, but only after examining the evidence of possible copyright infringement.
This means that if the data is saved for a shorter period than the time it normally takes to investigate an infringement, any order to turn over the data would also eventually fail.
I've heard from at least one ISP that they normally save data for three weeks, so that should be sufficient, unless the courts suddenly decide to start prioritizing these cases. :(
Re:I asked this on the Bahnhof story... (Score:3, Informative)
Bahnhof does. No idea about the price of a VPN as you have to contact their sales department. But you can rent a server for ~145$/month and set up your own VPN.
But if you are looking for a anonymous Swedish VPN service take a look at www.relakks.com. They don't keep any logs either.
Hope that answers your question.
Europe (Score:3, Informative)
Re:This will likely keep happening (Score:2, Informative)
But why would you, if you haven't got anything to hide? The only people who would do this must be terrorists, or users of prostitutes! We should lock you up to protect the children. What a shame we didn't get the 42 day detention-without-charge law passed - still, we can hold you for 28, it's better than nothing.
Re:This will likely keep happening (Score:1, Informative)
Using prostitutes is not illegal in the UK.