House panel approves bill to force ISP's to log users web history

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Da6s

July 30, 2011, 03:11:19 AM
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/?tag=mantle_skin;content

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Internet providers would be forced to keep logs of their customers' activities for one year--in case police want to review them in the future--under legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved today.

The 19 to 10 vote represents a victory for conservative Republicans, who made data retention their first major technology initiative after last fall's elections, and the Justice Department officials who have quietly lobbied for the sweeping new requirements, a development first reported by CNET.

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A last-minute rewrite of the bill expands the information that commercial Internet providers are required to store to include customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses, some committee members suggested. By a 7-16 vote, the panel rejected an amendment that would have clarified that only IP addresses must be stored.

It represents "a data bank of every digital act by every American" that would "let us find out where every single American visited Web sites," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill.

Lofgren said the data retention requirements are easily avoided because they only apply to "commercial" providers. Criminals would simply go to libraries or Starbucks coffeehouses and use the Web anonymously, she said, while law-abiding Americans would have their activities recorded.

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I'm beginning to think a career change to being an eternal keyboard monkey might not be such a bad idea.
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

Luna

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July 30, 2011, 03:19:16 AM
Quotecommercial Internet providers are required to store to include customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses,

Oh, lovely.  Let's make it REALLY easy for criminals to find this shit, shall we?

I foresee a major market in "throw-away" credit cards, ones that you load up with "X" dollars, and then toss out when you're done.

I however, want to file a FOI request, and demand the internet browsing history of all GoP presidential candidates.  Let's see what porn they're viewing, shall we?
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Juana

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July 30, 2011, 06:10:35 AM
 :argh!: what the fuck does the government need with my goddamn credit card number of all things?
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Don Coyote

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July 30, 2011, 06:26:36 AM
Quote from: Hover Cat on July 30, 2011, 06:10:35 AM
:argh!: what the fuck does the government need with my goddamn credit card number of all things?

Quote from: Luna on July 30, 2011, 03:19:16 AM
porn they're viewing

Anna Mae Bollocks

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July 30, 2011, 07:15:30 AM
Quote from: COL Coyote on July 30, 2011, 06:26:36 AM
Quote from: Hover Cat on July 30, 2011, 06:10:35 AM
:argh!: what the fuck does the government need with my goddamn credit card number of all things?

Quote from: Luna on July 30, 2011, 03:19:16 AM
porn they're viewing

POST. OF. THE. FUCKING. YEAR.

Ok, so if you're doing the wifi thing, what then? What about proxies?
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Juana

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July 30, 2011, 07:29:32 AM
Quote from: COL Coyote on July 30, 2011, 06:26:36 AM
Quote from: Hover Cat on July 30, 2011, 06:10:35 AM
:argh!: what the fuck does the government need with my goddamn credit card number of all things?

Quote from: Luna on July 30, 2011, 03:19:16 AM
porn they're viewing
Outside of Utah, who the fuck buys porn online?

This who thing makes me angry, but that (the credit cards) just puzzles me.
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

Don Coyote

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July 30, 2011, 07:46:04 AM
Quote from: Hover Cat on July 30, 2011, 07:29:32 AM
Quote from: COL Coyote on July 30, 2011, 06:26:36 AM
Quote from: Hover Cat on July 30, 2011, 06:10:35 AM
:argh!: what the fuck does the government need with my goddamn credit card number of all things?

Quote from: Luna on July 30, 2011, 03:19:16 AM
porn they're viewing
Outside of Utah, who the fuck buys porn online?



Dumb people.

Da6s

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August 01, 2011, 02:32:15 AM
Quote from: COL Coyote on July 30, 2011, 07:46:04 AM
Quote from: Hover Cat on July 30, 2011, 07:29:32 AM
Quote from: COL Coyote on July 30, 2011, 06:26:36 AM
Quote from: Hover Cat on July 30, 2011, 06:10:35 AM
:argh!: what the fuck does the government need with my goddamn credit card number of all things?

Quote from: Luna on July 30, 2011, 03:19:16 AM
porn they're viewing
Outside of Utah, who the fuck buys porn online?



Dumb people.

Prudes who don't know how to use the interwebz.
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human
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