YouGov :"POLL - Blunkett's proposals on internet privacy: for or against"

[Roland Perry]

In message <200112142118.VAA23695@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>, Charles Lindsey 
<chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes
>S21(4)(c) is static
>information, so the question of retention times does not arise.

Just picking up this and the other point in isolation:

If you cancel your account with an ISP, and agree with the ISP that your 
bill has been paid up and you had an unblemished record, why would they 
need to keep information about you as a business purpose? Unless it's 
something like a copy of your VAT invoices - or other reasons to do with 
tax accounting.

>The administrator of the server (who may of may not be an ISP, or a
>telecommunications provider, but let us suppose he is)

RIPA says that servers are part of the network, so people administering 
them are CSPs.
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