Careful who you call

According to the Guardian, the HSE and local authorities will be able to request internet service providers and phone companies to hand over records of email and phone exchanges as part of their investigations into safety breaches. The HSE and other public bodies will be able to ask for data that the telecoms companies will now have to store for a month under a new EU Directive.

They won't be able to access the content of the phone and email traffic, just the logs of who wrote to or called whom, to help them in their investigations.

It's the sort of thing that might be useful to investigators looking at a corporate manslaughter charge and would mean that any compromising email that passed through an ISP couldn't simply be wiped from the system and forgotten. There are enough warnings from lawyers about howmuch you should say in accident reports that might end up disclosed to an investigating authority, and here's another reason for caution.

The Guardian piece is here