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DOJ to Congress: Make ISPs keep tabs on users
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Posted on 05/10/2011 9:54:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

DOJ to Congress: Make ISPs keep tabs on users

By: Tony Romm May 10, 2011 12:05 PM EDT

As a new Senate privacy panel considers the data collected by iPhones, Androids and BlackBerrys, the Department of Justice is reminding lawmakers that it needs Internet providers to store more data about their users to help with federal investigations.

Current law doesn't require those Internet service providers to "retain any data for any particular length of time," although some already do, said Jason Weinstein, deputy assistant attorney general at the DOJ's Criminal Division. And many wireless companies — which must collect some data — also "do not retain records that would enable law enforcement to identify a suspect's smartphone based on the IP address collected by websites the suspect visited," he noted in prepared testimony.

That's why Weinstein urged the Senate Judiciary’s Privacy, Technology and the Law subcommittee on Tuesday to consider data-retention legislation as it weighs new privacy efforts in the digital age. The top DOJ official said such a congressional fix would boost the agency's ability to investigate privacy breaches, prosecute other digital crimes and ferret out abuses in the offline world.

"Those records are an absolutely necessary link in the investigative chain," Weinstein told the panel.

Data retention has proven to be a particularly divisive issue in the privacy community. Some top tech stakeholders believe it would allow companies and law enforcement agencies too much access to consumers' personal information, such as the websites they visit. The resulting caches of information could further be subject to data breach, many argue.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; datacollection; dataretention; doj; dojisajoke; donttreadonme; govtabuse; internet; isps; privacy; rapeofliberty; smartphones; tyranny
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To: Sub-Driver
Again I say...



21 posted on 05/10/2011 11:49:20 AM PDT by Nat Turner (I can see NOVEMBER 2012 from my house....)
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To: Adder
I bet someone could get mighty rich developing such a model...

You'd get no funding and no infrastructure support. Silicon Valley is owned lock, stock and barrel by the very worst of the Left.

22 posted on 05/10/2011 1:51:41 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: Myrddin

The DOJ wishes to inform you that it’s probable ‘cause they want to do it. / Neener-neener-neener.
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23 posted on 05/10/2011 2:27:55 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: redgolum

Uh...The Feds don’t own or regulate the internet or ISP’s!!!!
They have no authority to demand traceability!!


24 posted on 05/10/2011 2:39:51 PM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: Sub-Driver

The DOJ is a criminal enterprise.


25 posted on 05/10/2011 4:43:41 PM PDT by upchuck (Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: Myrddin
The DOJ seems to forget there is a 4th Amendment. They can’t do what they want without probable cause

But, but, ... If you haven't done anything wrong then you have nothing to hide ... right? RIGHT!?

/sarc off

26 posted on 05/10/2011 6:15:43 PM PDT by PENANCE
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To: Sub-Driver

ISP = Internet Spying Program!!!


27 posted on 05/12/2011 12:33:35 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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