The Chilean government and the country’s telecommunications operators have agreed to an amendment to existing legislation that would require the latter to retain customer data for at least two years, reports Diario Financiero. Under the terms of the new regulation, which has yet to signed into law by president Michelle Bachelet, operators will need to keep records of all calls made as well as geolocation, messaging and subscriber data, plus IP addresses and even links visited, for a period of two years. The report said the decree specifies that the government will only be able to access the data in exceptional crime-prevention cases as defined by the country’s Criminal Code.
Chile’s telecommunications regulator Subtel and mobile telephony association Atelmo, as well as the country’s operators all took part in the drafting of the new data retention and interception decree.
