Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee voted 19-10 for H.R. 1981, a data-retention bill that will require your ISP to spy on everything you do online and save records of it for 12 months. California Rep Zoe Lofgren, one of the Democrats who opposed the bill, called it a “data bank of every digital act by every American” that would “let us find out where every single American visited Web sites.”Don't worry, though. It'll only be used against bad* people.
*Definition of "bad" subject to revision without notice.
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Well, my computer has been acting up, and I would miss all my computer friends, but if this becomes law, I won't bother replacing my computer.
According to Karl Denninger at The Market Ticker, ISPs have had these kinds of records since forever as part of normal business. All that is needed is a court order, and they become evidence.
Another law that has more to do with feeling like something is being done rather than actually doing something.
What ever happened to "Carnivore"?
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