Congress May Add Record Requirements to MySpace

An anonymous reader writes "CNet is reporting that Congress may be working to extend the record retention requirements they're already working on for ISPs to social networking sites. Sites such as MySpace or FaceBook would be required to hold onto content access records for an unspecified length of time." From the article: "In those meetings, Justice Department representatives went beyond the argument that data retention was necessary to protect children--and claimed it would aid in terrorism investigations as well. During Wednesday's hearing, politicians also claimed that social-networking sites were not doing enough to verify that their users who claimed to be a certain age were telling the truth. (Recent news reports have said that sex predators are using MySpace and similar sites to meet up with teens.)"

Comments

Something good to retain information on.

[jrmcferren]

If MySpace is used by predators to target teens, they should have a record retention policy. It also holds people more accountable to law enforcement too. If they have illegal information on there and they "delete" it before the cops see it, they data retention would be the only way for the police to get evidence.

Re:Since when did we all become a bunch of pussies

[Pink Tinkletini]

You're the Floridian who voted for Nader in 2000, aren't you? You fucking disgust me. Is anyone really still so brickheaded as to believe there was no difference between Bush and Gore?