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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday March 30, 2017 @02:15AM (#13993317)
It also gives ISPs the cover, funding and motivation to archive customers' browsing data en masse. The value of these data will be huge for both domestic and foreign intelligence.
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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by bigbugbag on Thursday March 30, 2017 @06:20AM (#13994182)
This got lobbyied in European Law about 10 years ago in the mandatory data retention directive ( Directive 2006/24/EC [1]). It got challenged in court for being unconstitutional up to the high instances and got invalidated by the Court of Justice of the European Union for violating fundamental rights in 2014.

Some countries have decided to face fines and sanctions to keep data retention in their national law as long as they can but most have promptly killed their local implementation of data retention.

[1]: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:320... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday March 30, 2017 @07:58AM (#13994591)
> most [EU countries] have promptly killed their local implementation of data retention

Source?

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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by gojomo on Thursday March 30, 2017 @02:35AM (#13993397)
Some countries have even made such data retention a legal requirement. For example in the UK:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34715872

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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by bigbugbag on Thursday March 30, 2017 @06:09AM (#13994130)
Funny thing is that law is actually illegal: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/24/british-g...
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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by dllthomas on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:00PM (#13998421)
At least, until brexit...
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