About this ISP disclosure to the government shit that's supposed to start this month: has anybody seen or heard of a comprehensive list of the ISP's that are participating in this travesty? Thanks.

 

Hope this helps!

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TorrentFreak
June 29, 2012

Unfortunately, nearly all providers are very secretive about their data retention policies. Unlike VPN providers, all admit to logging IP-addresses, but how long they retain them remains a mystery.

In an attempt to find out more, TorrentFreak contacted several large ISPs with the seemingly simple question; How long does “company X” store IP-address assignment logs? Our findings are detailed below.

Those who value their privacy and hide their IP-address can of course always sign up with a VPN provider, one that doesn’t keep logs.


Time Warner Cable

Time Warner informed us that they store IP-address logs for up to 6 months.

Interestingly, the company is the only ISP we contacted that also posts information regarding its data retention on its website.

Comcast

Comcast did not respond to our inquiries but has mentioned a 180 day retention policy for IP-addresses in BitTorrent-related court documents. On some occasions cases have been dismissed because logs were no longer available, meaning that alleged infringers could not be identified.

The 180 day policy is also mentioned in the Comcast Law Enforcement Handbook that leaked in 2007.

Verizon

Verizon’s Privacy Office informed TorrentFreak by email that information about IP address assignments is retained for 18 months, the longest of all ISPs who responded to our request.

Qwest/Century

The Qwest/CenturyLink Law Enforcement Support Group informed us that IP-address logs are kept for approximately 1 year. As is also the case with other Internet Providers, Qwest/Century noted that personal details are only disclosed when the company receives a subpoena.

Cox

Cox failed to reply to our inquiry, but previously it has mentioned a 6 month retention policy for IP-address assignments in the press. In Cox’s “Lawful Intercept Worksheet” the company also mentions that logs are kept for “up to 6 months.”

AT&T

AT&T’s IP-address logging practices are not public. Initially the company did not reply to out inquiry, but upon publishing AT&T’s Privacy Policy Team promised to get back to us as soon as they find out how long logs are kept. We will update this article as soon as their response arrives.

Charter

Charter lists no information about their IP-address retention in its privacy policy. However, a reader alerted us to an answer on Charter’s website where it states that residential IP-addresses are retained for one year.

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The ISPs below were added after publication.

- DSL Extreme says they retain radius IP logs for two weeks on their DSL service.
- Teksavvy (Canada) keeps IP-assignment logs for two years.
- Eastlink (Canada) keeps IP-assignment logs for one year

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my internet provider is ATT,hope all this internet law shit is just a rumor.

 

pretty sure this started on june 6th.
sorry no reference, just remember seeing official statement from alphabet soup agencies regarding such.

 

hmmm i am gonna have to look deeper into this issue- first i heard about it (been on the road in my big truck)

i got time warner road runner. which means - this is gonna suck

thanks for the info, and anything i uncover- i will post in this thread