Obligations to store traffic data

(1) The parties named in section 175(1) are obliged to store data within Germany as follows: 1. data under subsections (2) and (3), for ten weeks; 2. location data under subsection (4), for four weeks.
(2) Providers of voice communication services store 1. the telephone number or another identifier of the calling and the called connection, and, in the case of call diversion or forwarding, of every further connection involved; 2. the date and time of the start and end of the connection, stating the underlying time zone; 3. particulars of the service used, where different services can be used in the course of the voice communication service; 4. in the case of mobile voice communication services, additionally a) the international mobile subscriber identity for the calling and the called connection, b) the international equipment identity of the calling and the called terminal equipment, c) the date and time of first activation of the service, stating the underlying time zone, where services were prepaid; 5. in the case of internet voice communication services, also the internet protocol addresses of the calling and the called connection and assigned user identifiers. The first sentence applies correspondingly 1. to the transmission of a short, multimedia, or similar message; here, the points in time of sending and receiving the message replace the particulars under the first sentence, point 2; 2. to unanswered calls, or calls unsuccessful owing to an intervention of network management, insofar as the provider of publicly available voice communication services stores or logs the traffic data named in the first sentence for the purposes named in section 9 of the Telecommunications and Digital Services Data Protection Act.
(3) Providers of publicly available internet access services store 1. the internet protocol address assigned to the end user for an internet use, 2. a unique identifier of the connection via which the internet use takes place, and an assigned user identifier, 3. the date and time of the start and end of the internet use under the assigned internet protocol address, stating the underlying time zone.
(4) In the case of use of mobile voice communication services, the designations of the radio cells used by the calling and the called connection at the start of the connection are to be stored. For publicly available internet access services, in the case of mobile use, the designation of the radio cell used at the start of the internet connection is to be stored. In addition, the data showing the geographic location and the main radiation directions of the radio antennas serving the respective radio cell are to be maintained.
(5) The content of the communication, data on internet pages visited, and data of electronic mail services may not be stored on the basis of this provision.
(6) Data underlying the connections named in section 11(5) of the Telecommunications and Digital Services Data Protection Act may not be stored on the basis of this provision. This applies correspondingly to telephone connections originating from the bodies named in section 11(5) of the Telecommunications and Digital Services Data Protection Act. Section 11(6) of the Telecommunications and Digital Services Data Protection Act applies correspondingly.
(7) Storage of the data must take place in such a way that requests for information from the entitled bodies can be answered without delay.
(8) The party obligated under section 175(1) must irreversibly delete the data stored under subsection (1), or ensure their irreversible deletion, without delay, but no later than within one week of expiry of the storage periods under subsection (1).