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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."
...land of the free indeed. such idea's come from idiot pencil pushers with no technical savy.
Well, it seems we don't have a monopoly on idiot pencil pushers. Quote from the article:
"France, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Sweden jointly submitted their data retention proposal to the European Parliament in April 2004. Such mandatory logging was necessary, they argued, "for the purpose of prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of crime or criminal offenses including terrorism.""
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
FWIW, this is standard issue in Europe already
the pun is mightier than the sword
This discussion is also going on in Europe and in the Netherlands there are ISP like XS4ALL, BIT and Interned Services who have made some calculations. The cost is pretty high, but it seems the government and the EU are still pushing this in name of preventing crime and terror.
Some Dutch and English reading material can be found here http://www.ispo.nl/home/dossiers/bewaarplicht/.