Re: [privacy] ISP Customer Record Retention Plan On Hold

[Patrick Jordan <patrickj () sunbelt-software com>]

Big Brother maybe...One must also remember the issue of the home
security guy that was also stalking girls online. Tracking all data of
users could give the authorities access to credit cards and other
financial data that in the wrong hands, especially if a server like
Ipowerweb known for being hacked, that would give the bad guys all the
data they needed without having to infect users with key loggers.

-----Original Message-----
From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] 
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 6:26 PM
To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
Subject: [privacy] ISP Customer Record Retention Plan On Hold

Via C|Net News.

[snip]

A prominent Republican in the U.S. Congress has backed away from plans
to rewrite Internet privacy rules by requiring that logs of Americans'
online activities be stored.

Wisconsin Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, the chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee, said through a representative this week that he
will not be introducing that legislation after all.

The statement came after CNET News.com reported on Tuesday that
Sensenbrenner wanted to require Internet service providers to track what
their users were doing so police might more easily "conduct criminal
investigations," including inquiries into cases involving child
exploitation and pornography. The concept is generally called data
retention.

[snip]

More here:
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6074070.html

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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