What do you think about communications data collection and storage?

Roland Perry ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri, 1 May 2009 20:34:48 +0100


In article 
<a2b6592c0905011114t22339739k46e2c38abede0ede@mail.gmail.com>, Igor 
Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> writes
>>> One of the fallacies (which I've been pointing out for at least the last
>>> eight years) is that the communications data for a particular communication
>>> is a static thing.
>>
>> <cough> sorry: *isn't* a static thing.
>
>Are you saying that it is static or it isn't static? :-s

The correction is to say that the data *isn't* a static thing.

"Of course, some of it is.... but there's no reason why it shouldn't 
have *other* communications data temporarily associated with it for one 
leg of its journey, which is then discarded later in its travels."
-- 
Roland Perry