Utah Considers Warrantless Internet Subpoenas

seneces writes "The Utah State Legislature is considering a bill granting the Attorney General's Office the ability to demand customer information from Internet or cell phone companies via an administrative subpoena, with no judicial review (text of the HB150). This represents an expansion of a law passed last year, which granted that ability when 'it is suspected that a child-sex crime has been committed.' Since becoming law, last year's bill has led to more than one non-judicial request per day for subscriber information. Pete Ashdown, owner of a local ISP and 2006 candidate for the US Senate, has discussed his position and the effects of this bill."

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Re:Yes, they are thinking of the children

[Anonymous Coward]

Capitalism is more like telling people they can earn a mile by working hard, when at the end of the day they discover it really only amounted to an inch,

. . . and the other 5,279 feet and 11 inches went to Halliburton. And if you complain about that, you are a communist and why do you hate America?