GOP pushing for ISPs to record user data ('protect the children')

cnet ^ | 1/24/2011 | cnet

[mewykwistmas]

"Thanks to the GOP takeover of the House, the odds of such legislation advancing have markedly increased. The new chairman of the House Judiciary committee is Lamar Smith of Texas, who previously introduced a data retention bill. Sensenbrenner, the new head of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, had similar plans but never introduced legislation. (It's not purely a partisan issue: Rep. Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat, was the first to announce such a proposal.)

Police and prosecutors are the biggest backers of data retention. FBI director Robert Mueller has said that forcing companies to store those records about users would be "tremendously helpful in giving us a historic basis to make a case" in investigations, especially child porn cases. An FBI attorney said last year that Mueller supports storing Internet users' "origin and destination information," meaning logs of which Web sites are visited.

And the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which will be sending a representative to tomorrow's hearing, previously adopted a resolution (PDF) calling for a "uniform data retention mandate" for "customer subscriber information and source and destination information." The group said today in an e-mail exchange that it still supports that resolution."

[mewykwistmas]

"But last March, a German court declared the national data retention law to be unconstitutional"

A GPS tag can't be that far off, can it? The chulren must be protected and unless you have to hide...

[null and void]

Gosh,I hope they don’t forget to give Obama an internet kill switch.

[e_castillo]

To go alomng with the insult I bet we get a “Data Retention Fee” in our bill!

I hope these guys don’t go full idiot now that they are back in control.

[Vendome]

Gee, I hope they don’t mind that brown stuff all over their heads from having em up Fauxbama’s Derieir.

[freedumb2003]

It looks like some GOP lawmakers DIDN’T GET THE FREAKING MESSAGE last November!!!!!

Stay the heck out of our personal lives! We don’t need, much less want, a Nanny State!

[Captain Peter Blood]

And you thought only Democrats would introduce and back such a plan.
Where does it end? Confirms my beliefs that both parties are corrupt and out of control.
While it is laudable to want to catch Child Porn users does that mean all of us have to have every bit of information we seek and use stored so that anyone in Authority can look at it? It won't end there and we all know it, the real scheme is to track what we read and what groups we associate with.
The DHS and Big Sis will certainly be accessing that database for the purposes of putting together a list of “Domestic Subversives” you can bet on it.

[TV Dinners]

agreed... and here I thought the GOP was for less government,
not Big Brother.

[JaguarXKE]

Isn’t F. James Sensenbrenner one of the establishment good old boys - not part of this current wave of new blood GOP members? I’m not surprised that he would be pushing this, but I’m not sure I buy the articles conclusion that “Thanks to the GOP takeover of the House, the odds of such legislation advancing have markedly increased.” That is conjecture and doesn’t take into account that this new breed of Conservative GOP members is not part of the same good-old-boy network.

[cranked]

What are they asking for that Google does not already do for certain government agencies? /s =.=

[Starwolf]

This can be easily bypassed. I do not use my ISP/bandwidth provider for anything but bandwidth. I have my own server located elsewhere through which I do all my email, web browsing etc via an encrypted link, effectively my own ISP. Its not all that hard to do (find a competent sys admin geek who knows *NIX). Run everything memory resident and there is quite literally nothing that can be found.

[darkwing104]

What the obvious Rat writer isn't saying that the congressman's intent of the law was to catch pedophiles.

However, like all thing when put into hands of Marxists will be quickly adapted to go after anyone...especially your enemies. The POS author is stirring the pot for 2012, he'll try an insinuate that (Pick any Conservative) supports this idea.

[luv2ndamend]

Same party, different letter.

People still don't get it. For their few pieces of silver and the power over the peasants, they will do anything!

[Dallas59]

They’ll have to start limiting access to the internet via nation wide data plans. $45 a month for 1 gig...$15 for every meg over. It’s for the children.

[The Comedian]

The Government Party: We Know What's Best.

Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

[cynwoody]

To go alomng with the insult I bet we get a “Data Retention Fee” in our bill!

The cost alone is reason enough to oppose such bills and damn any pols who support them.

Also, the bad guys will just VPN their traffic through other countries.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Posted this link back in February of 2003.
Still fitting.

[Breto]

“It looks like some GOP lawmakers DIDN’T GET THE FREAKING MESSAGE last November!!!!!

Stay the heck out of our personal lives! We don’t need, much less want, a Nanny State!”

Anybody that doesn’t realize that the GOP is just totalitarian light is a fool. The betrayals have already begun.

[BenLurkin]

The Party of Government — our mastes.

[Vendome]

http://www.playitontheweb.com/games/Pop-Bubble-Wrap-game.htm

[Minus_The_Bear]

"Have you tried unplugging your government and plugging it back in?"