Comments on: Mandatory Data Retention: How Much is Appropriate? http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:49:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: tramadol http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/comment-page-1/#comment-33996 tramadol Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:32:26 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/#comment-33996 81e31de21f46 Hi <a href="http://www.abc-acupuncture.com/baxqorav" rel="nofollow">tramadol</a> tramadol 81e31de21f46 Hi tramadol tramadol

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]]> By: MikeT http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/comment-page-1/#comment-49939 MikeT Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:43:55 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/#comment-49939 To put it nicely, Adam, this is nothing more than the federal government resorting to the Chinese tactic of shooting a political dissident for treason and then billing the family for the bullet. To put it nicely, Adam, this is nothing more than the federal government resorting to the Chinese tactic of shooting a political dissident for treason and then billing the family for the bullet.

]]> By: MikeT http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/comment-page-1/#comment-33994 MikeT Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:43:55 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/#comment-33994 To put it nicely, Adam, this is nothing more than the federal government resorting to the Chinese tactic of shooting a political dissident for treason and then billing the family for the bullet. To put it nicely, Adam, this is nothing more than the federal government resorting to the Chinese tactic of shooting a political dissident for treason and then billing the family for the bullet.

]]> By: fishbane http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/comment-page-1/#comment-49938 fishbane Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:20:57 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/#comment-49938 <i>Allow full-blown mandatory data retention for as long as government wants but then force them to pay the full cost of retaining that data.</i><br><br>Put another way, I should pay via taxes to warehouse data to be used against me? The Stasi would be proud.<br><br>Instead of thinking about the who-pays question, thinking about the controls would be a lot more interesting. Allow full-blown mandatory data retention for as long as government wants but then force them to pay the full cost of retaining that data.

Put another way, I should pay via taxes to warehouse data to be used against me? The Stasi would be proud.

Instead of thinking about the who-pays question, thinking about the controls would be a lot more interesting.

]]> By: fishbane http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/comment-page-1/#comment-33993 fishbane Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:20:57 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/#comment-33993 <i>Allow full-blown mandatory data retention for as long as government wants but then force them to pay the full cost of retaining that data.</i> Put another way, I should pay via taxes to warehouse data to be used against me? The Stasi would be proud. Instead of thinking about the who-pays question, thinking about the controls would be a lot more interesting. Allow full-blown mandatory data retention for as long as government wants but then force them to pay the full cost of retaining that data.

Put another way, I should pay via taxes to warehouse data to be used against me? The Stasi would be proud.

Instead of thinking about the who-pays question, thinking about the controls would be a lot more interesting.

]]> By: Ed Felten http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/comment-page-1/#comment-49937 Ed Felten Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:32:27 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/#comment-49937 I would have the opposite worry about making the government pay the cost of data retention: the cost might be too low. The marginal cost, per byte of data stored, is dropping exponentially due to Moore's Law. There are fixed costs, but once those are paid the cost of adding to the data store could be very small.<br><br>In the long run, the true cost of data retention will be due to the risk that data will leak or be misused. Unless those costs are taken into account, government will buy too much data retention. I would have the opposite worry about making the government pay the cost of data retention: the cost might be too low. The marginal cost, per byte of data stored, is dropping exponentially due to Moore’s Law. There are fixed costs, but once those are paid the cost of adding to the data store could be very small.

In the long run, the true cost of data retention will be due to the risk that data will leak or be misused. Unless those costs are taken into account, government will buy too much data retention.

]]> By: Ed Felten http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/comment-page-1/#comment-33992 Ed Felten Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:32:27 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/06/26/mandatory-data-retention-how-much-is-appropriate/#comment-33992 I would have the opposite worry about making the government pay the cost of data retention: the cost might be too low. The marginal cost, per byte of data stored, is dropping exponentially due to Moore's Law. There are fixed costs, but once those are paid the cost of adding to the data store could be very small. In the long run, the true cost of data retention will be due to the risk that data will leak or be misused. Unless those costs are taken into account, government will buy too much data retention. I would have the opposite worry about making the government pay the cost of data retention: the cost might be too low. The marginal cost, per byte of data stored, is dropping exponentially due to Moore’s Law. There are fixed costs, but once those are paid the cost of adding to the data store could be very small.

In the long run, the true cost of data retention will be due to the risk that data will leak or be misused. Unless those costs are taken into account, government will buy too much data retention.

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