- Jan 24, 2011
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Last month the French government passed new legislation dictating that service providers keep records of every username, password, activity, date/time and email address for 12 months.
The providers should also keep postal addresses and phone numbers if they are known, according to a post on GigaOm.com.
The European Union has been passing ever more confusing privacy bills for some time now, but the French one seems to have stepped a little too far over the privacy line.
If service providers are required to store your password(s) for 12 months, this will make data loss events even more tragic. For the providers to surrender your password to the police or other government authorities, they must either store your password in plain text, or in some reversible hashing algorithm.
More details - link
The providers should also keep postal addresses and phone numbers if they are known, according to a post on GigaOm.com.
The European Union has been passing ever more confusing privacy bills for some time now, but the French one seems to have stepped a little too far over the privacy line.
If service providers are required to store your password(s) for 12 months, this will make data loss events even more tragic. For the providers to surrender your password to the police or other government authorities, they must either store your password in plain text, or in some reversible hashing algorithm.
More details - link
