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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.
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?
:argh!: what the fuck does the government need with my goddamn credit card number of all things?
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?
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.
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.