A Swedish internet service provider, Bahnhof, has a practice of deleting customer identification information "couplings" at the earliest stage possible.
The company's CEO, Jon Karlung, says he is opposed to the new Swedish anti-filesharing law, and that "It's about the freedom to choose, and the law makes it possible to retain details. We're not acting in breach of IPRED; we're following the law and choosing to destroy the details."
According to a company spokesman, earlier reports that the company had "begun" deleting customer information in order to thwart the new law which went into effect April 1st are incorrect.
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To clarify, we (Bahnhof) have not "begun deleting information" of any kind, we have always discarded this sort of informationcouplings in the earliest stage possible in our ongoing efforts to provide iNTeGriTY-marked(swedish language ahead) broadband for our customers.
ReplyDeleteThis is not an action spurred out of spite against the incoming barrage of integrity-violating laws but a continuous service that we have provided for our customers since the very beginning in 1994.
(End of clarification)
Dear drf;
ReplyDeletePlease email me to confirm the authenticity of your statement. I will then pull the article, as according to you, the report on the Local is untrue.
Mail sent (from my work-email, with my real name).
ReplyDeleteThank you. The article has been corrected.
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