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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.'"
I take it you have never had to keep paperwork for a business. Never been audited?
I have had to produce receipts for transactions years in the past to make the IRS happy. Who I bought something from and when isn't any of their business, but they make it.
Sure they don't collect it all - they just make us do it for them and be able to ask for it at any time. Without a warrant, without charges, just because they can.
Your argument is just semantics.