Australia has revised their data privacy law... " *The changes allow police to force telcos to retain data on persons of interest for a set period while a warrant is sough**t*. " The last bit of the quotation is my emphasis. This law fulfills treaty obligations to the EU and is in line with the EU Data Retention Directive 2006. See the story here and back into the Act itself from there. Read the comments as well. http://mobile.itnews.com.au/Article.aspx?CIID=312771&type=News Of course, not everybody is happy with this development, comparing the requirements unfavourably against the EU Data Retention Directive of 2006, around which the treaty obligations are centred. If you're not familiar with that directive, read the full advisory of EU Data Retention Directive of 2006 here and pay close attention to Articles 2 -6, inclusive: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:105:0054:006... I'm still trying to find more data and information that'd come via implementation of Articles 10 and 14; Statistics and Evaluation. - Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* =============================