Law Enforcement Requests for Net Data Multiply

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "It's not just phone companies grappling with reported potentially privacy-intruding requests from the NSA and other branches of government: Banks, Internet-service providers and other companies that possess large amounts of data on their customers say that police and intelligence agencies have been increasingly coming to them looking for tidbits of information that could help them stop everything from money launderers to pedophiles and terrorists, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'According to AOL executives, the most common requests in criminal cases relate to crimes against children, including abuse, abductions, and child pornography. Close behind are cases dealing with identity theft and other computer crimes. Sometimes the police requests are highly targeted and scrupulously legalistic, while other times they were seen by the company as little more than sloppy fishing expeditions. AOL says that most requests get turned down.'"

Comments

Here they are at it again

[jlebrech]

They shouldnt start to police the internet, instead they should be giving the paedofiles real sentences.

Even if a pedo, stops stickin his shit on the net, it wont stop him from doin his deeds in the real life.

They should just chop their dicks of and leave us internet people alone.

Soon we will be back to 56k with everything we say and do resent to various authorities for auditing, and the net will gring back to a hault.

US Air Marshals "Company of the Month"

[davidsyes]

Check THIS OUT:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060520/ap_on_go_co/ai r_marshals

"WASHINGTON - More needs to be done to ensure the anonymity of federal air marshals, says a critical new report Congress will look into next week.

The report also faults the service for requiring marshals to stay at designated hotels and show their credentials upon checking in. It said that in one instance, the Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel in Florida designated the service "company of the month" because of the number of rooms it had reserved at the hotel."

How LAME can the security services policies BE?

Requiring the officers and marshals to present credentials upon arriving at check in. Just a few years ago, this was brought up about agents and air marshals showing their credentials upon check-in at airports, too. I suppose this was to get them past security or in preferential seats or to help them scan the planes when they boarded fresh-boardings or layover/connecting flights, or maybe to spell the long-flight marshals.

Man, when will the station administrators and chiefs or whatever they are called learn?