Posted on 06/10/2015 6:07:01 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Can you be slapped with obstruction of justice for wiping clean your browser history? Yep, says the Feds. If you are in the habit of clearing your online tracks – as many do – a federal law on the books since 2002, meant to apply legal pressure on corporations under investigation, can be rolled out and used as leverage to charge individuals. Think Enron as the target, but Joe Internet user in the scope. Writes AOL.com: “Many Internet users delete their browser history and clear their cache and cookies without thinking twice about it… But the recent Boston Marathon bombing trial has brought to light a law, ratified in 2002, that could land you with a federal charge of obstructing justice for — wait for it — clearing your browser history.” The bill, known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, was signed into law by President Bush shortly after the 2001 Enron scandal. The bill was crafted by former US Congressmen Michael Oxley (R-OH) and Paul Sarbanes (D-MD). As investor confidence was rattled by scandals that rocked hefty corporations like WorldCom, Enron and Tyco, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, currently administered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, was meant to speak to corporate governance and accountability by legislating the storing of electronic records. But mixed into the language of the act, known as SOX, is this nugget, from Section 802 of the bill: Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under title 11...
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The IRS got away with it scot free.
Hilary should be worried.
Obama to the country,”All of your everything belong to us”.
Even if you clear your history, don’t they have other ways of checking it?
Possibly, but that takes extra effort, so they can still slap you with obstruction of justice charges for having cleared it if they need a felony to pin on you.
Intent to impede
My cache clears every time I close my browser. It’s just being prudent. I’m sure FedGov could track where I went online if they wanted to, but I’m not worth it. As for anyone else, they’d have a tough time getting the information, not that it would interest anyone.
Government control of the Internet will bring about the death of all human freedom.
Invasive technology, invasive government and the progressive mainstream media are mankind’s greatest enemies.
I just did that yesterday. Hands up don’t shoot. :-)
Obviously one law for highly privileged individuals in the administration and another for the normal people.
It is impossible for an American to go through the day without committing a crime.
When Hillary is prosecuted for deleting the state department’s email server that she was illegally hosting on her own private server, then I’ll be concerned about clearing my browser cache.
Just wait til it leaks out that your history is being uploaded without any consent
Is it now a crime to not allow a history to be created and to totally block cookies?
A government of the elite, by the elite, against the people.
I've set Pale Moon to "delete history on exit", reject third-party cookies, and only keep cookies until I close the browser.
I run CCleaner and Bleachbit several times a day. Come and get me, coppers.
Can’t clear history.
Next will be no personal shredders.
Then no putting garbage out in the dumpster.
Got to keep all self-incriminating evidence, you know.
Wait till it’s illegal to flush your toilet.
That may be SHTF, I guess.
Only in a sane world. Which this one is not.
So erasing a hard driver is also against the law?
Ridiculous. This is in conflict with good security policies and privacy rights.
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