In message <20071220104044.GA17703@???>, Phil Pennock
<exim-users@???> writes
>When I was postmaster at an ISP in NL, the Dutch legal situation was, to
>my non-lawyer understanding,
naturally, your jurisdiction may differ -- and since there is a very
significant lack of caselaw almost everywhere, you can ask two lawyers and
get three opinions -- which makes it all a bit off-topic for a technical
list....
... but for a relatively recent pan-European opinion from the point of
view of the Data Protection czars for the whole of the EU see:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/docs/wpdocs/2006/wp118_en.pdf
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richard Richard Clayton
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin