FBI Head Wants Strong Data Retention Rules

KevHead writes "Speaking at a conference of international police chiefs, FBI Director Robert Mueller called for strict data retention guidelines for US ISPs. Echoing DHS head Michael Cherthoff's assertion that the Internet was enabling terrorists to telecommute to work, Mueller went further and said that the US needs stricter data retention guidelines. '"All too often, we find that before we can catch these offenders, Internet service providers have unwittingly deleted the very records that would help us identify these offenders and protect future victims," Mueller said. The solution? Forcing ISPs to retain data for set periods of time.' If that happens, how long before the MPAA and RIAA start asking to take a peek at the data too, as they have in Europe?"

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Thanks for that information. I, for one, am now more willing than ever to protest against the Bush Administration in any way I can. That, and habeas corpus being taken is an insult to my freedom that is now even more theoretical than a reality. Not just the Bush Administration, but everyone we have elected as congressmen and senators are supposed to be representing us. I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't think they are. We have all these laws about "libel" and such? Well how about laws against using a barrage of straw man arguments like this one to take away our money and freedom, something that has been fought and died for by millions of lives. Of course, I'm not serious about making a law, but those who have tried to use the current war to do these things should be tried as a traitor for conspiring for more power by the abolishment of freedoms.