Re: [privacy] Gonzales Pushes Again for Increased ISP Data Retention

[rms () computerbytesman com]

Did Mr. Gonzales by any chance also talk about the non-retention of White
House emails by Karl Rove and others?

Richard


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> Via Threat Level.
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> [snip]
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> U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales last week reiterated his desire for
> increased ISP data retention to help combat crime. In a speech to the
> National Association of Attorneys General summer meeting in Atlanta,
> Gonzales gave his audience a graphic, stomach-turning look into the world
> of online pedophilia. He described a visit he made to to the Justice
> Department's child exploitation and obscenity section and some of the
> images and online videos he'd seen. "It changed me," Gonzales said. "It
> was
> an orientation I will never forget."
>
> Then he argued that not enough is being done to combat child exploitation
> and that law enforcement tools need to be bolstered, particularly by
> increasing data retention.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/06/gonzales-pushes.html
>
> Note: Obviously, the U.S. Department of Justice knows very well
> how to play the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse card:
>
> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/12/16/the-four-horsemen-of-the-informa
> tion-apocalypse/
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> - - ferg
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