Re: EU data retention

Also sprach Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@commandprompt.com)
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Mike Ellsworth wrote:
> > > I may be confusing myself.  Hopefully this doesn't mean that a user
> > > in the EU connected to website/ PostgreSQL in the US (as a user) will
> > > require some sort of monstrous logging system on all user activity
> > > within an account.
> >
> > Unless you are a telephony or Internet access provider, this doesn't
> > require any action of you.
>
> ... except setting up appropiate encryption and the like, no?

This will only hide *what* you are mailing, but not *whom* you are
mailing to. Communication graphs can be generated by the collected
information.

And may be you are going to a nice, government paid, trip to
Saudi-Arabia if someone is confusing some names in your
personal communication net ...

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