Data retention bill expected next week
According to this CNET news,
A Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives said Thursday that she plans to introduce legislation next week that would force Internet providers to record customer information for one year.
Personally I think it’s stupid for the gov’t to create such mandate, especially for the reasons they are citing.
because members of Congress have “learned that Internet service providers and social networking sites have information that law enforcement needs when investigating pedophiles online, and that is the IP address on a particular date and time that will help identify those involved,”
It’s one thing that ISPs retain logs as best practices, e.g., for forensic analysis and troubleshooting, it’s totally another for the gov’t to make it a mandate.
I certainly don’t want anyone to nose around in my stuff. Total violation of privacy if you ask me.
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