By Team Register for The
Register.
This article has been reproduced with permission.
It seems ISPs just couldn't stomach heavy-handed plans for an
EU-wide data retention regime. Which is why last night the UK's net
industry fingered the UK presidency of the European Union for the
villain gong, beating other nominees including the European
Commission, Russia and Sony BMG.
"The UK presidency of the European Union received this award for
seeking EU wide data retention laws which will force ISPs and
telcos to retain more data for longer without proper impact
assessment," a spokesman for UK internet trade group ISPA said.
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2006
