'The elephant in the room': Data retention's controversial origins | ZDNet It began with a secret consultation paper in 2009, secret meetings were held with industry, it went public in 2010, and the government finally outed a proposal<http://www.zdnet.com/au/politicians-united-by-data-retention-7000006865/>for requiring internet service providers (ISPs) to retain customer data for up to two years in 2012, leading to criticism from the public, privacy advocates, and industry. But the minutes of the original meetings show that the government knew the proposal would be controversial from the very beginning. http://zd.net/XbvTnh Source: http://www.zdnet.com/au/the-elephant-in-the-room-data-retentions-controversial-origins-7000011229/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://zd.net/XbvTnh+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]