Tuesday, February 06, 2007

GOP Revives ISP-Tracking Legislation

Declan McCullagh writes on C|Net News:

All Internet service providers would have to keep track of what their customers are doing online to aid police in future investigations under legislation introduced Tuesday as part of a Republican "law and order agenda."

Employees of any Internet provider who fail to store that information will face fines and prison terms of up to one year, the bill says. The U.S. Justice Department could order the companies to store those records forever.

More here.

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