Nbadan
09-19-2006, 05:45 PM
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Ah, the good-ole days
By HOPE YEN
The Associated Press
Tuesday, September 19, 2006; 1:25 PM
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Congress should require Internet service providers to preserve customer records, asserting that prosecutors need them to fight child pornography.
Testifying to a Senate panel, Gonzales acknowledged the concerns of some company executives who say legislation might be overly intrusive and encroach on customers' privacy rights. But he said the growing threat of child pornography over the Internet was too great.
"This is a problem that requires federal legislation," Gonzales told the Senate
Banking Committee. "We need information. Information helps us makes cases."
He called the government's lack of access to customer data the biggest obstacle to deterring child porn.
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091900779.html)
So instead of doing his job and shutting down child-porno sites and using the power granted to him under the constitution to stop the spread of child-porno images, Gonzales wants to have your ISP keep records of sites you visit and software you use. nifty.
Ah, the good-ole days
By HOPE YEN
The Associated Press
Tuesday, September 19, 2006; 1:25 PM
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Congress should require Internet service providers to preserve customer records, asserting that prosecutors need them to fight child pornography.
Testifying to a Senate panel, Gonzales acknowledged the concerns of some company executives who say legislation might be overly intrusive and encroach on customers' privacy rights. But he said the growing threat of child pornography over the Internet was too great.
"This is a problem that requires federal legislation," Gonzales told the Senate
Banking Committee. "We need information. Information helps us makes cases."
He called the government's lack of access to customer data the biggest obstacle to deterring child porn.
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091900779.html)
So instead of doing his job and shutting down child-porno sites and using the power granted to him under the constitution to stop the spread of child-porno images, Gonzales wants to have your ISP keep records of sites you visit and software you use. nifty.