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DOJ Wants ISPs to Retain All Customer Records

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the keeping-tabs dept.

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."

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  1. So if I build my own internet by putko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So if I build my own private internet, and don't connect it to the real internet, am I free of the logging requirement?

    How about if I have my own virtual internet, running on top of the real internet? Do I become a virtual ISP and then I have to keep logs?

    What if I don't use the same physical protocol to move bits? E.g. instead of volatages on a wire, I used morse code or smoke signals -- do I then esacpe the logging requirement?

    How big can a LAN/WAN be before it becomes the internet (assuming it isn't connected to the unfree Al Gore created internetwork)?

    What if the information is not contained in the protocols, but some side-channel? Do I, as an ISP (virtual or otherwise), have the duty to discover and provide "side-channel" logs?

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    http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/when_to_s tone_your_children/dt21_18a.html
  2. Re:For the benefit of the non-US people here by putaro · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You said the right words - don't you think that this is an unlawful search and seizure?

    Amendment IV - Search and seizure. Ratified 12/15/1791.

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.