GOP: ISPs, Wi-Fi Must Keep Logs For Police

[babsbunny]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/20/tech/cnettechnews/main4814896.shtml?tag=topHome

Proposed Data Retention Law Covers All Internet Providers, Even Your Home Wi-Fi Access, To Combat Child Porn

(CNET) Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points - even hotels, local coffee shops and home users - to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations.

The legislation, which echoes a measure proposed by one of their Democratic colleagues three years ago, would impose unprecedented data retention requirements on a broad swath of Internet access providers and is certain to draw fire from businesses and privacy advocates.

[zbdent]

1. wasn't there something about keeping e-mails and such?

Oh, wait ... it didn't apply to the REPUBLICAN president ...

[bluestateguy]

2. Oh that's so cute, the minority party has proposed a bill

Do they still fail to grasp that they lost the election?

[JCMach1]

3. DOA- Business will deep six this piece of Repug POO

[RC]

4. I assign my computers their IP addresses. I'll just shut down the DHCP function on routers

I didn't read anything about switches...

"Translated, the Internet Safety Act applies not just to AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and so on, but also to the tens of millions of homes with Wi-Fi access points or wired routers that use the standard method of dynamically assigning temporary addresses. (That method is called Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP.)
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Under the Internet Safety Act, all of those would have to keep logs for at least two years. It "covers every employer that uses DHCP for its network," Gidari said. "It covers Aircell on airplanes - those little pico cells will have to store a lot of data for those in-the-air Internet users.""

Edited to add: Does this apply to the government and their gazillion agency computers also?