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"gewg_" writes:

from the and-you-thought-your-country's-snooping-sucked dept.

Glyn Moody reports [techdirt.com] via TechDirt

Here's another [data retention] law, this time from Peru [eff.org], which has a particularly nasty twist, as the EFF reports:

The Peruvian President today adopted a legislative decree that will grant the police warrantless access to real time user location data on a 24/7 basis. But that's not the worst part of the decree: it compels telecom providers to retain, for one year, data on who communicates with whom, for how long, and from where. It also allows the authorities access to the data in real time and online after seven days of the delivery of the court order. Moreover, it compels telecom providers to continue to retain the data for 24 more months in electronic storage. Adding insult to injury, the decree expressly states that location data is excluded from the privacy of communication guaranteed by the Peruvian Constitution.

[...]The EFF post goes on to point out that the move contradicts a variety of human rights obligations that Peru has undertaken to comply with.

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