[quote=AdrianC @ Mar 11 2010, 07:46 PM]This is potentially very worrying.
Do you have any idea how this would apply to non-Germans running sites aimed at non-German audiences, but on servers located within Germany? 1&1/Schlund are one of the biggest hosting providers in Europe - with, AIUI, most of their European servers located in several data centres in Germany…[/quote]
Looks like it’s not actually that straightforward…
October 2008 - A German court has ruled that website operators are allowed to store the internet protocol (IP) addresses of their visitors without violating data protection legislation.
www dot out-law dot com/page-9505
(Any particular reason we can’t post links, admins?)