But beneath it, a related proposal was left uncensored: electronic communications service providers, it said, should be required "to retain for two years records showing the origination and termination of communications".
An important aspect of the debate is how vehement serious commentators are in their condemnation of the proposal, which would require businesses to retain for two years information that may not be significantly more revealing of private lives than records already kept.
In the account books for 1473 75, Halifax parish had the largest cloth production in the West Riding (a division of the historic county of Yorkshire), a position it retained for three centuries.
The signed consent form of each participant will be retained for three years.
This entails needles being retained for three weeks or more.
Plants are usually retained for one to four years.
As recently as the 1990s, most package designs were retained for seven or more years.
Executives of Solution 42 will be retained for two years, said Portal, which is based in Cupertino, Calif.
They continue: "If names are known, they will be included" and: "generally, records are retained for seven years".
Scotland Yard's disclosure, in response to questions from NUJ lawyers, stated "generally, records are retained for seven years".
It quotes a document from Hertfordshire police saying that images of vehicles are kept for 90 days with other data, including the numberplates, retained for two years.
