German ISP Forced To Delete IP Logs

An anonymous reader writes "A German federal court decided today that T-Online, one of the largest ISPs in Germany, was obligated to delete all IP logs of a customer upon request to guarantee their privacy. From the article: 'The decision (German) does not mean that T-Online is now obliged to delete all their IP-logs, the customers first need to complain. But, if they ask T-Online to delete their IP-logs, the ISP has no other choice than to comply. A lawyer from Frankfurt already sketched a sample letter (German) to make this process easier.'"

Requests to delete server logs

[Neoncow]

Requests to delete server logs, however, will be logged.

Over here we force deletion of election logs

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks Diebold!

Re:Australia..

[Heir Of The Mess]

You must be from America. Americans often send us Australians instruction manuals in German because they think everyone speaks German in Austraya.

formerly, it did

[misanthrope101]

You didn't get the memo, it seems. The A now means "All." Big merger. They also are the CIA now. Analysts were fired to free up office space for shredders, and all raw intel is funneled into Dick Cheney's office, where it is sorted into two piles, "reality," and "tomorrow's talking points." The first pile is thrown out, where Colbert Report operatives posing as facts (so they won't be noticed) smuggle the reality over to Comedy Central, where it is broadcast and uploaded just in time to highlight the perspicacity of today's (formerly tomorrow's) talking points.

And no, I have no idea how that tangent ended up the way it did. Good or bad, I had to follow it. My muse isn't very talented, but she's mine, and I love her.

Re:Australia..

[tryptych]

Respectable Americans? I thought they were called "Canadians"?