[antiRepublicrat]

The Communications Act of 1934 puts limits on a Common Carrier intercepting customer communications.

Hate to say it, but what they want will be found constitutional. They aren't looking for a full record of every byte, but the computer equivalent of pen traces. ISPs keeping records helped the DoJ catch Mike Kernell, Sarah Palin's email hacker.

[Myrddin]

Phone companies have a record of the originating phone number, terminating phone number, start of call and duration of call. They don't have any of the content unless a wiretap is authorized by court order. The call records are used for billing the caller. Period. That is the sum total of the business interest in the information. The ISP will need a court order to take more. If they don't have one, a defendant will be sitting pretty in claiming the "evidence" was illegally obtained in violation of his 4th amendment rights.

[sargon]

Unfunded mandate?