On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 06:03:14PM +0200, Stefan Kelm wrote: > We've been helping the German "Toll Collect" system (as > discussed in this thread as well) setting up and implementing > their data privacy concept. This concept requires Toll Collect > to delete almost any data after a certain (quite short, actually)
They (not Toll Collect, though) do a realtime query against a reasonably long list of license plates in some German states, I recall reading. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Hessische-Polizei-hat-seit-Maerz-eine-Million-Kfz-Kennzeichen-gescannt--/meldung/99197 > amount of time. Even with disk prices falling they save lots > and lots of money (even compared to what we charged them for > telling them... :-) ). Given where things are headed in Germany, I guarantee you Toll Collect will be required by law to do data retention for at least a year or two in less than 5 years. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Debatte-um-Zugriff-auf-LKW-Mautdaten-fuer-Fahndungen-geht-weiter--/meldung/76321 -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]