Internet service providers should delete the IP-addresses of their customers. In this way could the Ipred-law, the EU anti-file sharing directive, be sidestepped. This is urged by parliamentarian Karl Sigfrid of the Moderate Party.
Yesterday did one of Sweden’s largest internet service providers, Tele 2, decide to follow in the footsteps of several smaller rivals and delete customer records. In this way they will sidestep the new Ipred-law which can force internet providers to give away the IP-addresses of their customers. They find support for this action in an older law that prescribe that it is optional for internet providers to keep customer records over the internet activities of their customers.
MP Karl Sigfrid of the Moderate Party has been against the implementation of the EU directive Ipred into Swedish law from the start. Now he urges other large internet providers to follow the example of Tele 2.
“I have myself sent an e-mail to my internet provider Bredbandsbolaget and asked them to stop keeping records of IP-addresses”, says Sigfrid to news agency TT.
Karl Sigfrid believes that more internet service providers soon will stop with keeping this kind of records.
But thus far they have not been ready to give such a notice. Both Comhem as Bredbandsbolaget today said that hey will continue to keep records of the activity by their customers. Telia said the same thin yesterday. All of them say that the reason is the security of their customers.
“Our task is to make sure that our customers are safe on internet. In order to do this we have to keep records for a short amount of time, maximum three weeks. We will not automatically give away any records but will investigate any such request very thorough and also appeal, says Georgi Ganev, CEO of Bredbandsbolaget.
According to him does also Tele 2 have to keep some kind of record of their customers internet activity in order to uphold security.
”The difference will not be that huge in effect. If they claim that they will be able to uphold security and at the same time immediately delete records, then I’m confused. It is impossible”, he says.
David Jonasson
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