Another step into the police state ...

[littlewolf]

Internet providers would be forced to keep logs of their customers' activities for one year--in case police want to review them in the future--under legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved today.
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, and the Justice Department officials who have quietly lobbied for the sweeping new requirements, a development first reported by CNET.

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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, some committee members suggested. By a 7-16 vote, the panel rejected an amendment that would have clarified that only IP addresses must be stored.

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It represents "a data bank of every digital act by every American" that would "let us find out where every single American visited Web sites," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill.
Lofgren said the data retention requirements are easily avoided because they only apply to "commercial" providers. Criminals would simply go to libraries or Starbucks coffeehouses and use the Web anonymously, she said, while law-abiding Americans would have their activities recorded.


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To make it politically difficult to oppose, proponents of the data retention requirements dubbed the bill the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, even though the mandatory logs would be accessible to police investigating any crime and perhaps attorneys litigating civil disputes in divorce, insurance fraud, and other cases as well.
"The bill is mislabeled," said Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the panel. "This is not protecting children from Internet pornography. It's creating a database for everybody in this country for a lot of other purposes."


Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/#ixzz1Tgr43zDe

[NV Whino]

1. This, of course, applies to congress critters, too?

Especially those of the Republican persuasion?

[RKP5637]

2. As most Americans snooze and are apathetic ... bred to be lambs, good little

cogs spinning in the system. ...never thinking to look outside of the box being built around them.

[Faryn Balyncd]

3. The politicians that NAMED this bill are the REAL pornographers.

What is more pornographic than twisting language to disguise a fascist power grab against all citizens as "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011"?






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei

[woo me with science]

4. War is Peace.

Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

And with passage of this debt ceiling legislation, the chocolate ration will have been increased.

[Faryn Balyncd]

5. It should be renamed the "Arbeit macht frei" bill.

[RC]

6. Key point -

"Lofgren said the data retention requirements are easily avoided because they only apply to "commercial" providers. Criminals would simply go to libraries or Starbucks coffeehouses and use the Web anonymously, she said, while law-abiding Americans would have their activities recorded."

[lunatica]

7. All this is already happening

All our information is already out there available to banks, the government and even potential bosses and landlords.