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What Info does an ISP keep about your surfing habits?

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  • 06-12-2005 1:25pm
    #1
    feckidyparp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭


    Howdy.
    I was just reading about a couple who had their hotmail accounts hijacked and the talk turned to ISP and internet security. What exactly does your ISP save about your surfing habits. I doubt its everything you download since my last ISP would have about 500Gb stashed away somewhere. Any ideas? I'm not sure i like the idea of the storing all my mails and stuff.


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    Martyr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Martyr


    someone else would know better, but i believe there is data retention for most isps..i have no idea what they record.
    with broadband being used by mostly everyone, i think such a law would be difficult & expensive to enforce.


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    jwt
    Registered Users Posts: 849 ✭✭✭jwt


    They just keep a log of where you visit not the actual data.

    Most ISPs use a transparent proxy to help reduce bandwidth usage and its trivial to enable logging to record the source and destination IPs

    If its something that is of concern contact Digital rights Ireland http://www.digitalrights.ie/

    They'll be able to give you the complete lowdown on how it works and what the data retension entails.

    John


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    #4
    feckidyparp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭feckidyparp


    cheers


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    schrodinger
    Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭schrodinger


    http://www.digitalrights.ie/2005/12/
    Next Tuesday, the 13th of December, the European Parliament will vote on a Data Retention Directive. This proposes to extend data retention to the Internet, and will result in your ISPs logging every email you send, every web page you visit, and everything else you do online and storing that information for several years.


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    gamer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,227 ✭✭✭gamer


    they keep a log of every site u visit ,time,and date , and record of time location of txt and all your phone calls,new data retention laws were brought in 2 years ago ,they are the most stringent in eu,,they have to hold onto info 4 three years i think,so its not a gud idea to go to certain sites even out of curiousity,idea is to stop gangs or terrorists groups using the net for communication or propaganda purposes or subversion of the state,,,i presume.thats how they cought realira,thru following telecom records .site details plus pages u visit,all urls of every single site.


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    iggyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 308 ✭✭iggyman


    like have the isp's already started tracking our activities yet or do they have to wait for a while?


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    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    I'd say they're doing it now.

    An innocent man has nothing to fear from the police...


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    rsynnott wrote:
    I'd say they're doing it now.

    An innocent man has nothing to fear from the police...
    Unless he lives in a mad, fascist dictatorship, of course.


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    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    rsynnott wrote:
    I'd say they're doing it now.

    An innocent man has nothing to fear from the police...

    Or unless someone takes over his machine and uses it to go to x,y and z. Then he's screwed.


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    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    Indeed. And that makes evidence collected in this way difficult to use.


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    #12
    SolarNexus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 703 ✭✭✭SolarNexus


    The Directive mandates that EU member states, including Ireland, are to track the location of all mobile phones, all calls made from land lines and mobile phones, as well as all information on individuals’ internet and email usage. This will include keeping records of all web sites visited, the senders and recipients of all emails and the use of any other Internet Protocol (IP) based communication such as the increasingly popular Voice over IP (VoIP) phone providers such as Skype.

    he who is treated like a criminal soon becomes one

    I wish I wasnt so correct when I say that the fourth reich is around the corner :(


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