Providers need information about the e-mail and internet traffic of their customers no longer twelve, but only six months to keep. The amendment of the telecom law is Saturday. Old data must be discarded.
The retention of data on the call behaviour profile of customers should still always twelve months to be kept, in the amendment of the telecom law, which on Saturday enters. The amendment of the telecommunications act was the beginning of this month approved by the First Chamber.
The retention of the so-called traffic data must be done to police and Justice, to help in the detection of criminals. The data do not contain any content, but only data about who someone has called or e-mailed, or which websites someone has been. The retention of data about browsing habits and e-mail traffic is now reduced from twelve to six months. As a result, the data for the period 16 July 2010 to 16 January 2011 will be removed.
The retention applies, since a few years, but it is unclear whether it really works. However, in my Justice earlier that, in the majority of criminal investigations data are used which, thanks to the data retention are obtained. Providers welcome the shortening of the retention: as a result less data to be stored. Not all politicians are convinced of the usefulness of the retention: GroenLinks believes that the privacybeperkende measure should disappear.