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Law 5651 and compliance
The law, regulations, logging duties and inspections.
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readWhatsApp and voice codes for Wi-Fi login: do they hold up under Law 5651?SMS is the baseline, matched to operator records. WhatsApp codes are supported as an addition to SMS; voice codes are a concept only. Third-party dependency and why you need legal advice.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readDoes blocking VPN, Tor or proxies on guest Wi-Fi protect your records?A guest switching on a VPN does not break your Law 5651 record. The record covers who used which device and IP, and when, not what travelled through the tunnel.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readBlocking access to unlawful content: what counts as enough?Blocklists, DNS filtering and family filters are not the same thing. How the three differ on a guest network, and what the appliance does and does not do here.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readWhich fields belong in a guest Wi-Fi access record?Internal IP, MAC, start and end time, NAT mapping and verification channel. The fields that make an access record useful, and why they should come from a single device.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readThe "it logs every website" myth: what a hotspot really recordsMany owners believe guest Wi-Fi records every site a visitor opens. With HTTPS and DNS-over-HTTPS that is neither possible nor expected. Here is what a Law 5651 record actually holds.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readThe 4 most common mistakes in log retentionKeeping records is not enough; they have to be usable. A single copy, unsigned records, rows tied to no identity, deletion when the disk fills: four mistakes and the panel answer to each.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min read12 questions an inspector asks, 12 answers from the boxAn administrative inspection is not a law-enforcement request. Here are 12 questions an inspector is likely to ask and where each answer lives in the panel.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readA prosecutor's letter arrived. What do you do in the next 15 minutes?An official request for guest Wi-Fi records is no reason to panic. Verify the request, narrow the scope, export from the panel, deliver encrypted and keep a delivery record.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance3 min readIs a time stamp required for guest Wi-Fi records?A common claim: records are invalid unless time stamped. The phrase does not appear in the regulation at all. So where is it actually required?Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance3 min readHow long must guest Wi-Fi records be kept?The answers circulating range from six months to two years. The regulation gives one clear figure: two years. With the article.Read more
- Law 5651 and compliance4 min readWhat does Law 5651 require from a business offering guest Wi-Fi?The duties are listed not in the law itself but in a 2017 regulation. Here is what each article says, with sources.Read more
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