TELECOM DATA COLLECTION
June 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNSIGNIFICANT resistance has been expressed by leading industrial groups to proposed European Union legislation forcing telecommunications utilities to retain significant amounts of detailed electronic customer data for use by law enforcement agencies. Under current regulations, only data for billing purposes and fixing faults must be retained but the EU is reported to be heading towards retention of lists of dialled telephone numbers, logs on the location of active mobile phones, URLs of visited web sites and records of e-mail recipients, on the ...
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