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DOJ Wants ISPs to Retain All Customer Records
doubledoh writes "CNET reports that the Department of Justice is 'quietly shopping around' the idea of requiring ISP's to retain all data of their customer's online activities for at least several months. The SEC already mandates that publicly traded firms retain all company emails for at least 2 years, but it looks like John Q. Public may also soon be subject to similar Constitutional violations. Big Brother, here we come."
-William Brendel
"When are they going to start recording every second of every phone call?"
We already do. BTW, you shouldn't talk like that to your mother.
How many voters does it take to change a lightbulb? ...None, voters can't change anything.
I'd like to meet this congressman and smack him in the head with a newspaper... and say "Nooooo, bad congressman"
If you still refer to the Internet as "the big blue e" then you can not regulate it.
[1] unless I'd recently eaten asparagus.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Why don't the DOJ just skip this whole step and just ask the NSA to share their Echelon data instead? Seems like a duplication of effort otherwise
Osama just called to say he's hung up his terrorism hat. We no longer have enough freedom to be worth hating.
Freedom to fear. Freedom from thought. Freedom to kill.
I guess the War on Terror really is about freedom!
Yeah, well... I'm gonna go build my own internet, with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the internet!
If encryption is a munition, why aren't more of us in the NRA?
Jaysyn
There is a war going on for your mind.
You could explain how this would curtail the rights of some minority group. (Best to choose women, blacks,or homosexuals, since they are the most politically powerful excuses^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hgroups.)
> 2. Calculate the cost of storing the avarage data throughput of a client per 3 months.
> 3. Be astonished on how many years of company profits will go into setting up this system.
> 4. Wonder how on earth you're going to search through such a huge data storage.
> 5. ?
> 6. Profit!
5. Buy stock in Western Digital, Seagate, and Maxtor.
You're welcome.
"One day, after my application for a Parental License is approved by the DOJ, I hope my kid doesn't ask me, "Daddy, what was freedom like like when you were a boy?""
Come on you are being reactionary, Freeedom will still be around well into the future. Your kids are safe. It will be just a new and improved freedom in Amerika. And with that great new freedom will come great responsibility to defend it.
To protect our freedom we will have to institute more checkpoints so that the criminals, terrorists, tax evaders and other enemies of freedom can be caught as they try to subvert our freedoms. To help us in our fight against freedom haters, universal surveillance will be possible for the first time in history. Powerful computers will be able to identify suspicious behavior so that activity records can be flaged for further study. Almost immediately any suspicious individual, could be automatically restricted to geographically defined areas, so that any potential subversive activities can be squelched and damage to freedom limited. We will call this the Cat Stevens freedom protection system, or CSFP for short. Once access to government controlled privileges such as transportation are limited, then offenders can in most cases be convinced that freedom gives you many many benefits, such as health care and access to alcohol.
Everyone has to do their fare share to defend Freedom. That means that people must work hard and contribute to freedom. In fact I imagine the economy will be replaced in whole by freedom. No longer will we be limited by the scourge of market economics where people of dubious character exchange goods, services and ideas without any concern for their contributions to freedom. But rather people of esteemed character will get credits for their efforts. We can call them freedom credits. This will allow those most deserving of our respect, for their efforts in support of freedom, to most enjoy freedom's benefits. After all those who don't work for freedom obviously don't want it.
So, rest assured. In the future your child will be much more than happy in our brave new world where freedom is the new currency and is at the very core of our society.
...on a technical level.
They'd be storing this much information on me: http://www.google.com/search?q=6+million+per+secon d+*+1+month
Which works out to about 1.80 TiB
And since hard drives are about $0.3875/GB,/ www.pricewatch.com/prc.aspx%3Fi%3D26%26a%3D4429
http://www.pricewatch.com/default.aspx?p=http%3A/
That means I'm getting an extra $714.24 value out of my $80 Comcast bill, or whatever they charge now.
And since I only watch my porn that I stream from the internet at H.264 1280p HD (5-6Mbps), caching the data on Comcast's servers is just as good as saving it on my own hard drive.
Now I already know what you're going to say:
To which I say:
-- I was raised on the command line, bitch