Posted on 07/29/2011 3:27:47 PM PDT by decimon
Boing-boing notices that “yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee voted 19-10 for H.R. 1981, a data-retention bill that will require your ISP to spy on everything you do online and save records of it for 12 months. California Rep Zoe Lofgren, one of the Democrats who opposed the bill, called it a ‘data bank of every digital act by every American’ that would ‘let us find out where every single American visited Web sites.’”
The databank is “for the children”. HR 1981 is actually titled “Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011″. Its sponsors say “the Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 (H.R. 1981) directs Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to retain subscriber information for up to 12 months in order to assist federal law enforcement in online child pornography and child exploitation investigations. This is similar to existing federal law that requires telephone companies to retain caller information for up to 18 months.”
HR 1981 is the latest in a long line efforts by the Federal Government to mandate data retention. Broadband DSL reports writes:
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Does my ISP -really- need to record for a year that I used my checking account to buy a book for $5 for my Kindle?
The scary thing, though, is the number of times ISP’s have been hacked for information. Think of the number of bank accounts and credit cards a hacker could get a hold of if an ISP has a full year’s worth of information.
One serious question I do have - why would my ISP even have access to my credit card or bank account information? Unless for some stupid reason I’m making transactions through an insecure connection, isn’t that all encrypted before it’s even sent?
They've been doing far more than that for some time. ALL electronic communications are being archived with software that sorts by patterns or any new parameters they want to input. Just (bomb) insert certain (uranium) key words every (D.C. Mall) so often in (massive explosion) your e-mails and (kill them all) posts. Then they will have to assign a live person to look at it and they can read all about Aunt Milly's oatmeal cookie recipes and Granpa's troubles with his colostomy bags. For hours ... and hours ...
For one one-thousandth the money they have spent on that they could seal our borders and achieve ten times the security.
>>What would it take a 100,000 fed workers to keep track of all the data.<<
Ever stop to consider that’s what the dims want.
Nearly all Republicans voted yes on that panel. They’re doing it for local government offices as well as federal ones. Both political parties are full of socialists, and they’re out to steal everything that you have.
The kids are busy sexting one another among their classmates and strangers on yahoo, et al. They are being exempted from prosecution. This is NOT about protecting the chil’run. It’s about wiretapping for future data mining.
Hillary Clinton illegally held hundreds of FBI files and got away with it. Laws don’t matter to those who want to abuse power. The excuse that “Bush’s policies led us down this path” does not hold water with the precedence we’ve seen from the Clintonista members of this administration.
Don’t like something in the national archives? Steal it and destroy it and claim that it contained nothing compromising about Herr Clinton.
The 0bama chip. Coming to a PC near you.
Ummm, "Every Breath You take" was written by Sting (Gordon Sumner) and Andy Summers of the Police.
Or are you speaking of something else entirely?
This would likely be the way the government could get rid of troublesome posters on forums like this. Surreptitiously, load a virus on your computer that sucks up internet porn and stores it away on your computer, ostensibly when the enforcers of this bill go scanning IPs
Cute little way to lock up 'troublemakers' who'd be hard to prosecute for sedition by using something else for a 'crime'.......
What I have done is search my PC for *.jpg, *.png, etc. Never found anything hinky, kinky or stinky.
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