Data retention would be costly
I surmised here that it would be costly for ISPs to retain customer data pursuant to a new proposal in the House of Representatives, and subsequently came upon a news report from a couple years ago in which industry sources predicted the cost of a similar proposal under consideration in the European Union would be quite large: For AOL, retaining communications data for one year would add an enormous cost, said de Stempel. “There are huge amounts of data involved. AOL has 329m user sessions a day, and its customers send 597m emails, and we’re just one ISP.” De Stempel said that to save all communications data on its UK customers for just one day would require 100 CDs. “If Read More ›