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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Re:ugh....

[cold fjord]

But there are plenty of idiot would-be terrorists who have no hope of carrying out what they are planning, but who are more than willing to martyr themselves by pleading guilty when they are caught (here is an example).

Hmmm... lets see....

"The principal planned attack involved packing three limousines with gas cylinders, explosives and the like and detonating them in underground car parks," Mr Lawson said.

Barot was said to have three other projects, including one that he called the "Radiation (Dirty Bomb) Project".

Wow! No chance at all of carrying out that principal attack, eh?

If the police can keep up a steady trickle of arrests of people like this, the "war on terror" can be kept going indefinitely.

Don't you mean, "As long as the Islamist extremists can keep finding volunteers, they can continue to threaten us"?

Well, don't worry.... there is a way out. All a country has to do, according to Bin Laden, is to convert to Islam, implement Sharia, cut off the Jews, ...