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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.

Ok and?

If you’re already in business with the ISP, they will have that information on file a lot longer than 1 year.

AS for Traffic - the only way to truly avoid anything is to work with HTTPS or use a virtual machine that provides a proxy for you to use. Otherwise, if it’s on the internet, it’s there for ANYONE to see.

In fact, sometimes it’s fun to go to a Barnes and Noble or even a McDonald’s on campus with a Wifi analyzer just to see what people are putting out there completely in the clear.