Posted on 04/14/2006 1:21:05 PM PDT by steve-b
The explosive idea of forcing Internet providers to record their customers' online activities for future police access is gaining ground in state capitols and in Washington, D.C....
Mandatory data retention requirements worry privacy advocates because they permit police to obtain records of e-mail chatter, Web browsing or chat-room activity that normally would have been discarded after a few months. And some proposals would require providers to retain data that ordinarily never would have been kept at all....
Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the free-market Cato Institute, was the member of the Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee who asked Chertoff about data retention last month.
In an interview this week, Harper warned that mandatory data retention may cause more harm than good. "The true criminals will go and use random Wi-Fi nodes where you can get anonymous access," he said. "You haven't done anything but increase surveillance of law-abiding citizens."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.com ...
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It's incredible. These guys are just like the dems.
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Not sure about anonymizer.com's record off the top of my head, but some anonymous proxy sites have been known to cooperate with the government when asked for browsing histories (even without a warrant), so caveat emptor.
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