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Posted on 07/30/2011 6:43:38 PM PDT by BfloGuy
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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at boingboing.net ...
They already truly believe that.
Looks like the only record keeping is maintaining a log of temporary ISP addys for each customer.
Can anyone find the part where they record every click and what you type?
And what is an “unregistered sex offender”? Is this an un-arrested, unconvicted citizen?
well it proves taht the pubbies are not conservatives and friends of freedom.
To make this enforceable...you’d need ISP police running around and double-checking all the ISP providers. I’m guessing it’d take a year or two for them to figure that out...and then some new division of Federal Marshals or FBI would be playing ISP police.
The technology already exists to beat this, so it is comical that it’s about ten years behind the times.
Yeah,,, a 19 to 10 committee vote on a committee the repubs control. These jerks were not sent there to do that.
The tendency of ALL governments is to control the people and to restrict their freedoms. This is why Thomas Jefferson believed there ought to be a revolution every generation.
Finding them would be a problem. Lots of the mom-and-pop country WISPs are a cell phone and a PO box.
Order service, and someone comes out and puts up a radio on your roof and goes away. Bill comes once a month... etc...
Sure, the hardware could be found, and everything traced... But lots of times, there are no offices. Just field equipment and a POP. The Feds come with locks to put on doors. What do they do where there is no door, or even there, there?
If it was me, I'd run normally until official problems, and then shut down and explain why.
I didn't get this old without learning when to walk away from a problem.
But make money right up until then.
/johnny
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/
An update, the bill requires that the IP be tied to a customer:
“A last-minute rewrite of the bill expands the information that commercial Internet providers are required to store to include customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses, some committee members suggested. By a 7-16 vote, the panel rejected an amendment that would have clarified that only IP addresses must be stored.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/#ixzz1Te30hL59
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REally? Tell that to the Jews that Hitler terrorized and killed.
I was thinking along the lines of supply and demand. Even if there isn’t a lot of outside choices right now- this bill will create it.
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This is essentially a legislated wire tap without benefit of a warrant with probable cause to violate your 4th amendment rights. It will be amusing to watch every case tried using this illegally collected “evidence” tossed.
Did you read the bill?
Most definitely. I run through an overseas VPN all the time. At most you can identify that I’m connecting to an overseas VPN - and then that’s it. Everything else is just garbage.
Exactly - Hitler basically made it a crime to be a Jew (or Gypsy, or handicapped, etc.) He pronounced a death sentence on millions both in battles and in his camps.
Communists America boxing us in. Not much left.
I’m a bit confused how ANYONE claiming to be a republican... the small govt party... could ever support such a bill. This is the very definition of massively intrusive, massive govt
It also turns every ISP into an agent of the govt (just like tax withholding makes all companies IRS agents)
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