How data rules will burden business. The EU's Data Retention Directive poses a major technological and managerial challenge

I can’t agree more after having read this article on how data rules will burden business. «IT managers in many types of firm may have to adjust practices to comply with the EU's Data Retention Directive (DRD), a set of guidelines that were approved on 15 March. The rules will affect "basically every company providing physical access to publicly available communications" … Initially the DRD will require telcos and ISPs, and firms such as Google, Yahoo and Skype, to store call traffic and location data (called call detail records – CDRs) for fixed and mobile telephony, internet access and internet email and telephony. These firms will also need systems that can analyse the data.» readh more here.