Swedish ISP Deletes Customer ID Info

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A Swedish internet service provider, Bahnhof, has begun deleting customer identification information in order to prevent it from being used as evidence against its customers under Sweden's new legislation against copyright infringement via peer-to-peer file sharing. According to this report on 'The Local,' it is entirely legal for it to do so. The company's CEO, Jon Karlung, is identified as 'a vociferous opponent of the measures that came into force on April 1st,' and is quoted saying that he is determined to protect the company's clients, and that 'It's about the freedom to choose, and the law makes it possible to retain details. We're not acting in breach of IPRED; we're following the law and choosing to destroy the details.'"

Agreed.

[A. B3ttik]

The company's CEO, Jon Karlung, is identified as 'a vociferous opponent of the measures that came into force on April 1st'

I'm not a fan of the new slashdot achievement system, either.

in case of an attack on the datacenter

[roman_mir]

Well, these guys have a nuclear bunker for a data-center [datacenterknowledge.com], they probably think that even if the government comes and attacks them, they can just ride it out inside. They'll probably survive even if US decides to blast them with a nuke (I wonder what the rest of the world would think of the USA if that happened though - US blasting an entrance into a datacenter with a thermo-nuclear weapon in a populated Swedish area. Oh well, just pretend there are WMDs in there and anything would go...

Re:New Swedish Data Retension Law

[MyLongNickName]

New Swedish Data Retension Law

I thought most backup systems did this to the tapes automatically...

Re:New Swedish Data Retension Lawl

[IanHurst]

Oh, fuck me, that's embarrassing. And now it's +5 Insightful. I love the spotlight!

Re:Wow

[cloudkiller]

can i get a link to the torrent plz?

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Audio book [thepiratebay.org], movie [thepiratebay.org] or are you capable of reading [thepiratebay.org]?

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Good job idiot! Now Slashdot's owners are going to go to jail for a year too! Of course, the site is commercially orientated, they probably make money off it and everything.... it's probably fair then.

Re:In next month's news...

[u38cg]

Hi. I'm sorry, but your subtle use of language has me rather confused. Do you think you could get off the fence and tell us how you actually feel about this issue? You seem a bit undecided.