The Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009

[Zoe O'Connell]

On 12/02/09 15:40, Ian Batten wrote:
> That's going to be an interesting question for JANET.  There's no 
> central JANET mail infrastructure, so they can do no data retention 
> worth talking about for that, and I think those pan-JANET web caches 
> of yore have pretty much died a death, although I could be wrong.   
> And yet not merely are some of our larger Universities equivalent in 
> size to a mid-size ISP, but one their demographic is probably if 
> anything more of interest to the security services (lots of non-UK 
> citizens) than a typical ISP.  But doing business with every academic 
> institution might be quite an entertainment...

Would JANET count as a public communications service?