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Republicans propose data retention laws targeting ISPs, home WiFi users
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:37:03 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> Date: February 20, 2009 2:09:30 AM EST To: dave () farber netSubject: Republicans propose data retention laws targeting ISPs, home WiFi users
Dave, IPers may be interested in my article from this evening: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10168114-38.htmlRepublican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of WiFi access points, even hotels, local coffeeshops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations... Translated, the Internet SAFETY Act applies not just to AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and so on -- but also to the tens of millions of homes with WiFi access points that use the standard method of dynamically assigning temporary addresses.
The relevant bills: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:s.00436: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.01076:It's unclear why Sen. Cornyn and Rep. Smith want to target home WiFi users (plus companies, universities, schools, libraries). Smith has been at this data retention thing for over two years now, so he's had time to get it exactly right:
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1028_3-6156948.htmlBefore Democrats start bemoaning how censorial the Republicans are, let's remember affection for data retention laws is a bipartisan sentiment. The first politician in the U.S. Congress to draft such legislation was a Democrat (Diana DeGette).
And the current attorney general, Eric Holder, said this when he was previously at DOJ: "Certain data must be retained by ISPs for reasonable periods of time so that it can be accessible to law enforcement." (http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/dagceos.html)
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