[AusNOG] Data retention

[Peter Fern]

On 10/13/2015 11:19, Noel Butler wrote:
>
> On 13/10/2015 08:22, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker wrote:
>
>> Most of my friends, mainly IT literate are thinking vpn. Not a good
>> sampling for the general public.
>>
>>  
>>
>> But you have pollie's pushing VPN's and legal (!)  avoidance
>>
>> http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/campaigns/stopdataretention#protect
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> the location - sure, your IP address at the time - which could be
> traced back to your connection location, so we'll give him half a
> point there, but about 8/10 points for scare mungering,its something
> everybody has always done to deal with spam/abuse reports.

Depends on technology - the requested data capture items do include
location, and on mobile it's certainly possible for that to be more
precise than IP address.

>  now for outright lies
>
> /"your IP address, your destination addresses*, your location, the
> time you connected to the web, the duration you connected to the web,
> and the volume of data exchanged./"
>
>  
>
> the destination address is explicitly EXCLUDED..
>

Only for web traffic - pretty much all the other protocols (email, VOIP,
IM, etc) specifically require that destination addresses are retained.

> your location, thats back to your IP address.
>

As above.
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