Edited by author 05-30-2002 05:10 AM
But surely we in the UK have nothing to worry about from a new European law along these lines? We've already had the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act for a couple of years, even if this "legislation requiring net service providers to retain traffic data and information about users could break the European Human Rights Act." ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/...1761000/1761974.stm ). According to the same news item, 18 months after RIPA became law, it was still consider rushed, bungled and unworkable.

http://www.fipr.org/rip may also be useful but - sinisterly? - it crashes IE5.5 .