#data-retention — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #data-retention, aggregated by home.social.
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From records of food insecurity (#hunger) to the costs of natural disasters to the causes of infant mortality, (and others) the federal government is no longer recording and preserving data on significant national risks and policies.
#economy #climate #climatepolicy #dataretention #nationaldatabases #infantmortality #pollution
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/07/trump-administration-deleting-data
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German government draft to force 3‑month IP+port logging would cost billions, burden providers and the state, and create new security risks 🧾💸🔒 Experts question effectiveness; courts likely to decide. Read more: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Expensive-digital-tracking-Billions-in-investments-for-new-IP-storage-11272398.html #DataRetention #Cybersecurity #IPstorage
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Der Referentenentwurf zur IP-Adressspeicherung des Justizministeriums setzt auf Generalverdacht: Drei Monate anlasslose Überwachung für alle!
Dabei gibt es gar keine empirische Notwendigkeit für eine Vorratsdatenspeicherung, denn es geht längst ohne, und sonst gibt es grundrechtsschonende Alternativen.
Veraltete Behördenstrukturen dürfen kein Argument für Massenüberwachung sein.
Unsere Stellungnahme: https://d-64.org/stellungnahme-vds/
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"Germany’s government is preparing to give its foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), far broader powers over online surveillance and hacking than it has ever had before.
A draft amendment to the BND Act, circulating by German media, would transform the agency’s reach by authorizing it to break into foreign digital systems, collect and store large portions of internet traffic, and analyze those communications retroactively.
At the core of this plan is Frankfurt’s DE-CIX internet exchange, one of the largest data junctions on the planet.
For thirty years, global traffic has passed through this node, and for just as long, the BND has quietly operated there under government supervision, scanning international data streams for intelligence clues.
Until now, this monitoring has been limited. The agency could capture metadata such as connection records, but not the full content of messages, and any data collected had to be reviewed and filtered quickly.
The proposed legal reform would overturn those restrictions.
The BND would be permitted to copy and retain not only metadata but also entire online conversations, including emails, chats, and other content, for up to six months."
https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-bnd-surveillance-law-expansion-de-cix-data-retention-hacking
#Germany #EU #Surveillance #Metadata #DataRetention #StateHacking
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Oh — yesterday I remembered that I had opted out of data-broker stuff several years ago, with two different services 🤣
There hasn't, anyway, been much data to begin with — also no ad ID from either Apple or Google. #compartmentalization #dataretention
#OptedOut #DataBrokers #PrivacyWins #TookAction 😂✅ #diday #didit #already xD #UnpluTrump #FCKBigTech
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"EU governments are pushing to widen data retention obligations for apps that citizens use every day – and the best VPN apps are among those targeted.
A new internal document dated November 27 (first published by Netzpolitik) provides important insights into the current thinking of the Danish Presidency of the EU Council. It shows that member states largely agree on the need for a new framework on data retention, presenting an important overview of lawmakers main position on the matter.
The topic has been debated since April, when the EU Commission first unveiled "ProtectEU," a strategy aiming to create a roadmap for "lawful and effective access to data for law enforcement." The Commission then presented the Roadmap in June, which outlined an intent to decrypt citizens' private data by 2030.
Crucially, the document reveals that EU governments see metadata – specifically traffic and location history – as the most vital tool for law enforcement.
Most member states argue that simply knowing who owns an account isn't enough. Instead, they want a new legal baseline where companies are forced to log exactly when and where a user was online, as well as the IP addresses they used to connect.
The document notes that member states are aware of the legal hurdles of gathering this data and emphasize that any new system must include robust safeguards and strict proportionality to satisfy the courts.
However, privacy experts and technologists have long warned that such 'safeguards' are not enough, arguing that you cannot weaken encryption or retain this data without fundamentally compromising user security.
Besides virtual private network (VPN) companies, other online services targeted include messaging apps, hosting providers, file sharing services, cloud storage apps, and other over-the-top (OTT) services."
#EU #DataRetention #Privacy #VPNs #Metadata #Surveillance #DataProtection #DigitalRights #ProtectEU
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EU prepares broader data retention framework impacting VPNs and OTT services.
https://www.technadu.com/eu-data-retention-expansion-targets-vpn-and-online-services/615846/• Metadata logging under discussion
• No-log VPN legality at risk
• Impact assessment due early 2026
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“EU Revives Plan for Year-Long Data Retention Across Digital Services, Including Encrypted Apps … Officials insist they do not intend to compromise encryption or read private messages. What they want is the so-called metadata: who contacted whom, from where, at what time, and through which service.” – https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-revives-plan-for-year-long-data-retention (via @fkamiah17)
“As NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker has said, ‘metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.’ When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment ‘absolutely correct,’ and raised him one, asserting, ‘We kill people based on metadata.’” – https://cyber-peace.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/We-Kill-People-Based-on-Metadata.pdf
#dataRetention #surveillance #governmentSurveillance #EU #metadata #EuropeanCouncil #BigBrother
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The EU culture you are actually establishing:
- Mass surveillance ( #ChatControl, #dataretention, #omnibus )
- Threatening the access to free information, communication and journalism ( #ChatControl again)
- Society of digital control in the interest of big tech corporations and authoritarian institutions (#digitalidentity, #europol)
- Drowing people in the mediterranean and letting them suffer and die at EU borders (#Frontex)
- Reckless Militarism, authoritarianism, neonationalism and neoliberalism, normalisation of corruption and lobbyism in and by your postdemocratic institution.
Nope, that's definitely no culture or vision worth to fight for. Quite the opposite actually.
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@daedalus
And it sounds like it’s not getting any better… with organisations which overcollect but can’t secure data continuing to do the same… That’s depressing. But as you say, if there are no consequences why bother to improve? 😐
In the meantime, the most secure data is that which is not collected. I know it’s preaching to the converted, but for orgs: if you don’t need it, don’t collect it; or don’t continue to hold it. 😐#reconnectingConsequencesToCauses #dataBreach #surveillance #dataCollection #dataRetention
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New week, new highlight of a member of our Advisory Council!
@andre_meister is an investigative journalist for @netzpolitik_feed focusing on #encryption, #dataretention & #statesurveillance in Europe.
He is also a founding member of @digiges and @Freiheitsrechte.
🌟 Excited to have him on board!
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Meta restricts attribution windows and data retention in Ads Insights API: Meta announces significant limitations to attribution windows and historical data retention for Ads Insights API starting January 12, 2026. https://ppc.land/meta-restricts-attribution-windows-and-data-retention-in-ads-insights-api/ #Meta #AdsInsights #DigitalMarketing #Attribution #DataRetention
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📣 Excited to speak at DevDay.be 2025 in my hometown Mons 🇧🇪 on November 13!
🎤 "The Art of Data Retention in PostgreSQL" will show why developers should care about data retention and how it impacts performance, maintenance, and scalability over time.
:postgresql: I'll be sharing DBA-tested techniques like declarative partitioning, Foreign Data Wrappers, and more.
💙 Looking forward to meeting many new faces there!
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Mashable: Judge lifts order requiring OpenAI to preserve ChatGPT logs. “A small but significant victory for OpenAI: the court order requiring the company to preserve all of its ChatGPT data indefinitely has been lifted.”
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‼️ ENDSPURT – bisher 4367 Stimmen – weniger als 12 Std. Zeit ‼️
👉 Hab die Fragen der EU-Kommission zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung / #Chatkontrolle beantwortet. ✅
👉 Dauert ca. 10 Minuten (mit Registrierung im EU-Portal, womit dies gleich mit erledigt ist). ✅ ✅
Siehe ⬇️ "Copy & Paste" von @echo_pbreyer ⬇️
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🇩🇪Stoppt die #Vorratsdatenspeicherung 2.0! ⚠️ Die EU plant radikale Massenüberwachung.Deine Stimme zählt: 📣 Nimm bis zum 12.9. an der EU-Anhörung teil.
Mit unserem Cheatsheet verteidigst du in 5 Minuten deine Grundrechte: 🛡️
https://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/804/79/lang,de/-----
🇬🇧 Stop #DataRetention 2.0! ⚠️ The EU is planning radical mass surveillance.Your voice matters: 📣 Participate in the EU consultation by Sep 12.
Defend your fundamental rights in 5 mins with EDRi's cheatsheet: 🛡️
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You can participate until tomorrow in a public consultation by the European Commission on their future plans for EU #DataRetention. @edri published a guide on how to find and navigate the consultation:
https://edri.org/our-work/public-consultation-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-answering-guide-for-civil-society-organisations-and-individuals/ -
We have invited Chloé Berthélémy @chlobemy from @edri to talk about #DataRetention in the EU.
„The EU Data Retention Zombie - What is the EU cooking up?“
This is a great presentation, covering from the basic question of what data retention is about to the current state of affairs and what to expect from the European Commission next year. Find and share the recording on our #PeerTube:
https://fair.tube/w/4QCyVXns5fpUUqhkQRnu3b?start=2m25s
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This is a good time to wise-up on #DataRetention as the European Commission is asking for your opinion right now. They would like to propose mandatory data retention across the EU, so please take a few minutes to tell them 'no' in the official consultation.
You can find a guide for how to find and navigate the consultation in the blog of @edri:
https://edri.org/our-work/public-consultation-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-answering-guide-for-civil-society-organisations-and-individuals/Or if you speak German, you can also use our guide at @digiges:
https://digitalegesellschaft.de/2025/08/sagt-nein-zur-vorratsdatenspeicherung/Deadline tomorrow (12 Sept.) midnight.
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Listen to @chlobemy from @edri explain #DataRetention and what is happening in the EU now:
„Metadata is as sensitive as the content of communications. There is this wrong idea – especially in the mind of policy-makers when we meet them – that metadata, so the data about the communications, is less sensitive than content data. This is this myth that we have to bust every time when we talk about this topic.“
https://fair.tube/w/4QCyVXns5fpUUqhkQRnu3b?start=2m25s
#npa149 #privacy #surveillance -
Not sure what #DataRetention is all about or you want an update on the current state of affairs?
Check this recent talk by @chlobemy from @edri:
„The EU Data Retention Zombie - What is the EU cooking up?“
https://fair.tube/w/4QCyVXns5fpUUqhkQRnu3b?start=2m25s -
The deadline to participate in the European Commission's consultation on #DataRetention is coming up. Have you participated yet?
It is important to have your say now and to reject the plans to store metadata of all people in the EU without cause.
If you have not participated yet: this guide by @edri can help you to find and navigate the consultation!
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‼️ Erst 4170 Stimmen – ABER NUR NOCH 36 Std. Zeit ‼️
Hab die Fragen der EU-Kommission zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung / #Chatkontrolle beantwortet. ✅
Dauert ca. 10 Minuten (mit Registrierung im EU-Portal, womit diese für die Zukunft gleich mit erledigt ist). ✅ ✅
⬇️ "Copy & Paste" von @echo_pbreyer ⬇️
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🇩🇪Stoppt die #Vorratsdatenspeicherung 2.0! ⚠️ Die EU plant radikale Massenüberwachung.Deine Stimme zählt: 📣 Nimm bis zum 12.9. an der EU-Anhörung teil.
Mit unserem Cheatsheet verteidigst du in 5 Minuten deine Grundrechte: 🛡️
https://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/804/79/lang,de/-----
🇬🇧 Stop #DataRetention 2.0! ⚠️ The EU is planning radical mass surveillance.Your voice matters: 📣 Participate in the EU consultation by Sep 12.
Defend your fundamental rights in 5 mins with EDRi's cheatsheet: 🛡️
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Bald geht der erste Netzpolitische Abend der @digiges nach der Sommerpause los!
Heute als #NPA149 🎉
20:00 Uhr auf der @cbase und ab 20:15 im #PeerTube-Stream!
Mit dabei:
@chlobemy von @edri mit einem Überblick zum Thema #Vorratsdatenspeicherung
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@pia_sombetzki von @algorithmwatch zum #Unsicherheitspaket 2.0.Außerdem wird es zum Schluss noch was Spannendes für alle Fans des #Fediverse geben! :fedi:
https://digitalegesellschaft.de/2025/08/149-netzpolitischer-abend/
#VDS #DataRetention #Sicherheitspaket #Überwachungspaket #FediDay
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Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever
https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1n6cjw1/europol_said_chat_control_doesnt_go_far_enough/
#HackerNews #Europol #ChatControl #DataRetention #PrivacyRights #DigitalSecurity #DataProtection
