[sldev] What is the point of firstlook and giving feedback to LL

[Matthew Dowd]

> Yes, they have !!! My IP address is enough an evidence, and should LL> need to find out who I trully am for whatever legal issue, they could ask> a French judge who would in turn order my ISP to give away my true identity.
Apart from the minor fact that under EU Data Retention Directive which attempts (to some degree) to honour that privacy you seek:
 
a) logs of ip addresses and activities against them need not be kept for longer than 6 months, and must be destroyed after 2 years (and of course LL can't know a priori whether you have a fixed ip or dynamic ip from your ISP, nor whether you will continue to do so and will not change ISPs)
b) access to such logs by law enforcement agencies should be for "serious crimes"
 
As such, it is unlikely that a French court would not order an ISP to turn over such data to a US court for a civil case, a major privacy infringement if the ISP offered this information without such an order; if the patch was submitted longer than 6 months previous to the case, there is a good chance that the ISP could not oblige with the data even if ordered to do so and after 2 years would not defintely be able to.
 
A peice of paper at LL is a lot cheaper, simpler and permanent than attempting to get an International Court Order to access a foreign national's ISP data - even ignoring that under EU privacy laws such an attempt is likely to fail.
 
Matthew
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