What is the data retention?
The retention of data is something that most businesses are engaged. simply storing customer information for billing purposes or repeatedly billing is "data retention." companies retain data for a variety of reasons, the purely practical ( "We keep your email address so we can contact you by letting you know that your balance is due.") for reasons that are more focused marketing or focus on monetization.
Depending on the amount of data stored and how it is used, the privacy of customers can be more or less affected.
What data are the laws of conservation?
data retention laws are laws that require companies to maintain a specific set of data to be retained and / or mandate a specified period for which maintain. Data retention laws are transmitted on a per country
As described by the EFF :. "Most Internet service providers and telecom operators provide subscribers an IP address that changes periodically. Mandatory data retention proposals forcing ISPs and telecommunications providers to keep records of their IP address allocation for a certain period of time. This allows the application of the law to ask ISPs and telecommunications providers to identify an individual based on that had a particular IP address to a specific date and time. "
Why data retention laws exist?
The sole purpose of data retention laws is to ensure law enforcement can request the data. Data retention laws are not enacted to protect consumers or businesses. They only exist so that companies can provide the data if law enforcement feels a need.
law enforcement may still request data, even if data retention laws do not exist, but the data retention laws, there is a legislated penalty if companies do not retain data and law enforcement requests later, and finds that they can not get it.
How users impact of data retention on Internet and privacy?
data retention causes confidentiality problems in monitoring the government, the government has access to the data to snoop, monitor, investigate or otherwise use as they please . Because data must be maintained, it becomes an attractive target for people looking to steal personal information of people for identity theft.
How VPN protect me from the data retention laws?
A VPN encrypts your Internet connection. This means that your ISP or telecommunications company can not see what web sites you visit, your online business or the content of your communications. Golden Frog VyprVPN for example also holds less data than ISP or other fact.
What about data that Golden Frog maintains?
Golden Frog collects a minimum amount of information when you connect to our VPN product (VyprVPN) and retains only for a period of 30 days. We keep
- Source IP address of the client (usually the IP address assigned by the client ISP)
- VyprVPN IP address used by the user
- Connecting start and stop time
- total number of bytes used
We also collect information for billing subscribers:
- payment details
- name customer
- of billing address information (as required by certain methods of payment)
- date and time has started
There. For more information about the reasons for what we record, read our article 10 myths.
How Golden Frog manage your data? If my country passes a law of data retention, will they be able to spy me on servers Golden Frog?
The data of 30 days (referenced above) is stored on our servers in Switzerland. individual servers outside Switzerland maintain some of this data locally for not more than 30 days, usually for less than 7 days, to enable us to transfer to Switzerland reliably. Data retention laws generally do not govern data Accessibility . They govern data retention. Data accessibility is normally governed by the laws in force (warrants, court orders, etc.). Data retention laws legislate while making sure there is data available so that access requests will produce results.
How Golden Frog protect against data retention?
As mentioned above, golden Frog encrypt your Internet connection to protect your information from your ISP or Telecom provider and we store our data on our Swiss servers. We own and manage our own network without third parties so that we can guarantee the highest level of privacy and security.
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