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Support for U.S. Mandatory Data Retention Laws

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mandatory-whatnow dept.

chill wrote to mention a C|Net article about an upswell in support for a mandatory data retention policy here in the U.S. From the article: "Top Bush administration officials have endorsed the concept, and some members of the U.S. Congress have said federal legislation is needed to aid law enforcement investigations into child pornography. A bill is already pending in the Colorado State Senate. Mandatory data retention requirements worry privacy advocates because they permit police to obtain records of e-mail chatter, Web browsing or chat-room activity that normally would have been discarded after a few months."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Re:In other news... by Mortirer · · Score: 3, Funny

    In conservative America, you don't delete email, email deletes you!

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  3. And in Soviet Russia... by Tackhead · · Score: 2, Funny
    >USA Bans Running Your Own Email Server
    >
    > No wait... I meant CHINA!

    In Soviet Russia, citizens delete emails!

  4. if you had an off switch, who would you tell by PMuse · · Score: 3, Funny
    Unknown to most people, their brains have an off switch. It is activated by the key phrase:
    But, think of the children.
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    1. Re:if you had an off switch, who would you tell by MS-06FZ · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's ridiculous. My brain doesn't have an off sw

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  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Funny

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  6. Re:Make this as broad as possible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hmph. Ought to enable Larry to buy a few more yachts...

  7. So.... by XMilkProject · · Score: 3, Funny

    So when I look at child porn I should fire up one of my free encrypted SSH proxies first?

    Oh wait, the government can't force the server i'm tunneling to, outside of the US, to retain any data... I suppose we better wrap a firewall around our country and not let those damn foreigners access to our internet.

    Why don't we just all move to china instead?

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