Hi everyone, as the discussion about the new lawful interception proposal is going on, an issue always comes up with people saying that saving real time data of all customers takes up a lot of hard disk space.

Now, as far as I understand this proposal, only information about logins and mailbox accesses has to be stored pro-actively. Real-time data intercepted from the DSL connection is only to be sent to the ÜPF in case of an interception order, in real-time, from that moment on (and no historical information).

This means that nothing changes from the present situation for what the storage of historic data is concerned. This new proposal "only" brings the following changes: - new real-time interception of data transmitted through a broadband connection (no historical storage) - new interfaces to communicate with ÜPF

Is this correct?

Now, do you think it would be possible to talk to ÜPF in order to find ad-hoc solutions in the rare cases these real-time interceptions should become necessary? Otherwise it's definitely overkill. What would be the best way to approach this?

I think some lawyers wrote this proposal without having the slightest idea of what they were doing, and I'm sure the techies working at ÜPF are smart people who would be willing to negotiate a more efficient implementation. What do you think?

-Manuel ________________________________________________________

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