House Panel Approves Bill Forcing ISPs To Log Users

skids writes "Under the guise of fighting child pornography, the House Judiciary Committee approved legislation on Thursday that would require internet service providers to collect and retain records about Internet users' activity. The 19 to 10 vote represents a victory for conservative Republicans, who made data retention their first major technology initiative after last fall's elections. A last-minute rewrite of the bill expands the information that commercial Internet providers are required to store to include customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses. Per dissenting Rep. John Conyers (D-MI): 'The bill is mislabeled... This is not protecting children from Internet pornography. It's creating a database for everybody in this country for a lot of other purposes.'"

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Re:And keeping credit card info?

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I'm moving my data offshore [...] anyone else with me, on this?

Sure, if you'll kindly explain how you plan to get to the internet in the first place without a domestic ISP?

You can certainly move your data offshore, but you still need to get there (and if you don't consider encryption one of the next few steps, I have a bridge to sell you).


thanks congress fuckwads; you just helped move an american's data OFF the US and out of your grubby fingers.

In the past few weeks, they've gleefully helped move billions of dollars out of the US stock market all to score points with their respective "bases". What makes you think they care more about something about which they lack even the faintest understanding (ie, your data)?