Tag: DATA RETENTION

Republicans in Congress are pushing for a new data retention law that will require anyone providing access to electronic communication to keep records of users for at least two years. Europe has similar requirements for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telephone providers, but the new proposal in the U.S. legislature goes far beyond the European regulations. The proposal requires all ...

Living in a digital world was supposed to mean that all information would be at our fingertips at all times, for the rest of time. Unfortunately, things aren't quite working out that way; many historians fear that lots of material is being lost to a digital black hole, thanks to the high turnover of information on the Internet. Lynne Brindley, head of the British Library, points to two sites, ...