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U.S. Pressures ISPs on Data Retention

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-they-needed-more-to-do dept.

packetmon writes "According to Wired's Declan McCullagh 'In a private meeting with industry representatives, Gonzales, Mueller and other senior members of the Justice Department said Internet service providers should retain subscriber information and network data for two years ... A more extensive mandate would require companies to keep track of e-mail messages sent, Web pages visited and perhaps even instant-messaging correspondents.'"

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  1. Re:wow by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    that's a lot of data... I wonder how many hard drives it would take to keep that much.

    I'm sure the NSA will conveniently offer a high bandwidth pipe into all the ISPs to collect the data for them and store it in their datacenter. I can't wait until 2008 so we can vote these clowns out of office and forget about this whole terrorism nonsense. If you ignore those jokers and don't give them the attention they want they'll eventually go away, but if you keep fighting them like Israel does they'll keep attacking to stay in the headlines. For example, where is the IRA these days? I haven't heard them bombing many places lately.