Telecom/IT – Providers Of Internet Content And The Data Of Users

Providers of internet content must store data of users for at least three years

The Superior Court of Justice ("STJ") has rendered a decision determining that providers of internet content must store data of users for at least three years. The ruling stems from a lawsuit involving the trustee of a university and Yahoo! and is only effective for such parties, but nonetheless indicates how the STJ may interpret similar cases from now on.

After an unidentified person posted an offensive message against a group of low-income students in a forum of students and professors of a university in the service "Yahoo! Grupos", the university's trustee filed a precautionary measure against Yahoo! in order to identify the author of the offensive message. In its defense, Yahoo! claimed that it was not legally obliged to store data of users, which had already been deleted from its registries in view of the cancellation of the service.