On Thursday 16 February 2012 12:37:31 D.Bolton U0970268 wrote:
Of course if the police come along with some kind of warrant - then privacy goes out of the window. But if the sysops can't actually look inside users' email repositories.... Hmmm. And what about logs of where messages are sent (or from where they are received)?
I don't think that this ruling affects other legislation which may require keeping logs. Maybe we can't be forced to read those logs or automatically monitor them for copyright infringements, but we could still be required to keep them for the police to use for non-copyright cases.
I'm pretty sure Michael Dorrington knows about the laws relating to logs, I'll ask him.
And thanks for sharing this news with the list!
Sam.