[tor-relays] Police request regarding relay

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On Mittwoch, 12. April 2023 18:28:09 CEST tor-operator at urdn.com.ua wrote:
> Finn <finn at grimpe-holding.de> wrote:
> > The weird thing is, that the relay in question is only a relay and
> > not an exit node since its creation (185.241.208.179)
> > (https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/w/relay/B67C7039B04487854129A66B16F5E
> > E3CFFCBB491.html) - anyone has an idea how this happens? Best regards
> 
> We receive this mostly from France and Germany. We figured out that
> they downloaded the Tor Browser then looked at the Tor Circuit widget
> and just collected the addresses they could see there.
> 
> This is the same as when Police, Attention Seekers, Cyber White
> Knights, Censors and other scoundrels contact every ISP they see in a
> traceroute.

Without a court order, the cops have no right to request data at all.

Generally also for commercial providers:
The European Court of Justice ruled that German data retention 
(Vorratsdatenspeicherung) is incompatible with EU law and therefore 
inapplicable.

https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2023/vorratsdatenspeicherung-medienberichte
(only in German)

-- 
╰_╯ Ciao Marco!

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