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Feds Push for Internet Records

John Reinan writes in The (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Star Tribune:

The federal government wants your Internet provider to keep track of every website you visit.

For more than a year, the U.S. Justice Department has been in discussions with Internet companies and privacy rights advocates, trying to come up with a plan that would make it easier for investigators to check records of Web traffic.

The idea is to help law enforcement track down child pornographers. But some see it as another step toward total surveillance of citizens, joining warrantless wiretapping, secret scrutiny of library records and unfettered access to e-mail as another power that could be abused.

posted by Fergie @ 1/02/2007 10:42:00 AM