Ah, the good-ole days
By HOPE YEN
The Associated Press
Tuesday, September 19, 2006; 1:25 PM
WASHINGTONWashington Post-- 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.
So instead of doing his job and shutting down child-porno sites and using the power granted to him under the cons ution 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.
According to the article, Gonzales is interested in establishing a chain of evidence to be used in prosecuting kiddie porners.
I'm not sure how that translates into Gonzales wanting to track my surfing habits. Nice leap.
Well, obviously it has something to do with those 'tubes' the information super-highway flows through.
Its just like how they are going to take you to a secret overseas prison and torture you for those unpaid traffic tickets.
The current law allows the police to get a warrant to look at the web sites you are visiting just by telling a judge (the judge cannot refuse). This is treated as analogous to the police getting a warrant to look at the pen register, the phone numbers you call and that call you. The phone company maintains these records to bill you properly (one can hope) and to show that their billing is correct, so the government is used to getting old phone call records. However, almost no ISPs bills based on the web sites you visit, so they don't keep them. If the ISP doesn't have old records, it seems to me the police can wait at that point for more evidence.
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