UPC keeping track of your history

gerry99

Hi , do upc keep track of your history or which sites you visit and if so for how long ? just in case the misses ever gets curious ha

bk

gerry99 wrote: »

Hi , do upc keep track of your history or which sites you visit and if so for how long ? just in case the misses ever gets curious ha

They would never share such information with your misses or anyone else without a court order.

shruikan2553

As far as I know (at least for other companies) they would have your history tied to your IP address with no name attached to it and can only be connected if there is a court order.

gerry99

oh okay , i think the upc account may be in her name so would she still require a court order or would the history be freely open to her

degsie

gerry99 wrote: »

oh okay , i think the upc account may be in her name so would she still require a court order or would the history be freely open to her

What the hell have you been up to 'gerry' (if that's you'r real name)?

Mr. G

Communications (Retention of Data) Act.

Data necessary to trace and identify the source of a communication:


(a) the user ID allocated;


(b) the user ID and telephone number allocated to any communication entering the public telephone network;


(c) the name and address of the subscriber or registered user to whom an Internet Protocol (IP) address, user ID or telephone number was allocated at the time of the communication.


2. Data necessary to identify the destination of a communication:


(a) the user ID or telephone number of the intended recipient of an Internet telephony call;


(b) the name and address of the subscriber or registered user and user ID of the intended recipient of the communication.


3. Data necessary to identify the date, time and duration of a communication:


(a) the date and time of the log-in and log-off of the Internet access service, based on a certain time zone, together with the IP address, whether dynamic or static, allocated by the Internet access service provider to a communication, and the user ID of the subscriber or registered user;


(b) the date and time of the log-in and log-off of the Internet e-mail service or Internet telephony service, based on a certain time zone.


4. Data necessary to identify the type of communication:


the Internet service used.


5. Data necessary to identify users’ communication equipment or what purports to be their equipment:


(a) the calling telephone number for dial-up access;


(b) the digital subscriber line (DSL) or other end point of the originator of the communication.

When you type in www.google.com a request is sent to a DNS server for the IP address of that website. You are then connected to that website. I would imagine it would be difficult for a provider to identify what website pages you visited. It wouldn't make sense to record all that data because it would be pointless and a waste of hard drive space.

The above appears to me that they don't record websites visited, instead are required to record IP addresses etc which you are allocated and for what time period.

A provider cannot review the data:

service provider shall not access data retained in accordance with section 3 except—


(a) at the request and with the consent of a person to whom the data relate,


(b) for the purpose of complying with a disclosure request,


(c) in accordance with a court order, or


(d) as may be authorised by the Data Protection Commissioner.

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(The above is not legal advice).

gerry99

Ha just some ex gf ****e it's all good thoooo

Vicxas

Quite possibly the strangest request I've ever seen in the BB forum.

But yeah a court order would be needed for anything of the sort.

ekevosu

Vicxas wrote: »

Quite possibly the strangest request I've ever seen in the BB forum.

But yeah a court order would be needed for anything of the sort.

Considering his account is now closed we can guess it was not an innocent query.

dalta5billion

Hi everyone,

European Court of Justice has declared data retention an invasion of privacy, so this is all up in the air at the minute as to what happens to existing records.

Some_Person

Well if the Irish Data Retention act was to enable the EU act to be law here, both should be now void.