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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: SypheDMar on January 29, 2011, 12:33:48 am
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It doesn't seem that we want our own version of the Great Firewall. What do you guys think?
At a House of Representatives hearing, as CNET was the first to report, the Justice Department endorsed the concept of forcing Internet companies to collect and store data about their customers that they would not normally retain. This echoes the Bush administration's position under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said mandatory data retention would help law enforcement "connect the dots" in criminal investigations. "I'm really not understanding why you don't have a specific proposal," she said.
For now, the scope of any mandatory data retention law remains hazy. It could mean forcing companies to store data for two years about what Internet addresses are assigned to which customers. (Comcast said in 2006 that it would be retaining those records for six months.)
Or it could be more intrusive, sweeping in online service providers, and involve keeping track of e-mail and instant-messaging correspondence and what Web pages users visit. Some Democratic politicians have previously called for data retention laws to extend to domain name registries and Web hosting companies and even social-networking sites. An FBI attorney said last year that the bureau supports storing Internet users' "origin and destination information," meaning logs of which Web sites are visited.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029531-281.html
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ehh i can see where this is coming from, but im not so sure i like the idea. invasion of privacy and whatnot. I feel like this law would get challenge if it passed.