Lately, the Internet news sites and blogs have all been buzzing with reports of privacy infringements by various IT companies, regulation changes and updates on the laws already in effect, all related to data retention policies.

Well what does all this mean? In effect, the majority of companies providing IT services in one way or another have to abide by these new regulations in order to comply with the new standards. Initially, data retention was not mandatory, but it soon became clear (mostly in the past few years) that legal, administrative, commercial and even social interests can be better protected through such an initiative.