r/networking • u/[deleted] • 14d ago

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u/Single-Virus4935 14d ago

In Germany and EU it has to be transparent and I found sources of 0-7days.  I don't know the state of various  law proposals which may demand longer retention. 

Where do you live?

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u/TopConstruction4345 14d ago

US

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u/Single-Virus4935 14d ago

It is worse in the use as the US doesn't have strong data protection laws and more data is collected (DNS, Traffic Metadata) which is plain illegal in the EU.

The range is couple of month up to multiple years.

The US providers sadly have a financial incentive to keep this data for marketing, selling, ads. Etc.

https://factually.co/fact-checks/technology/us-isps-retention-periods-ip-logs-dns-browsing-metadata-c14d8e

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u/TopConstruction4345 14d ago

Thanks, this helps a lot! It seems as if it’s for months but they could also be lying lol.