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“A direct assault on Internet users” is what the ACLU is calling it. Just before the break a House committee approved HR 1981, a broad new Internet snooping bill. They want to force Internet service providers to keep track of and retain their customers’ information — including your name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses.
They’ve shamelessly dubbed it the “Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act,” but our staunchest allies in Congress are calling it what it is: an all-encompassing Internet snooping bill. ISPs would collect and retain your data whether or not you’re accused of a crime.
According to CNET : , the “mandatory logs would be accessible to police investigating any crime and perhaps attorneys litigating civil disputes in divorce, insurance fraud, and other cases as well.”
Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill said, “‘It represents a data bank of every digital act by every American’ that would ‘let us find out where every single American visited Web sites.”
And you can watch our new video about the Internet Snooping Bill here:
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Check out the story today on HuffPo about the sale of data mined material to the Murdoch papers in England. Same person who blew the whistle on the phone hacking scandal says she witnessed the negotiations for the sale of a data dossier on EVERY VOTER in the UK.
From “Heather Brooke: Data Dealing Is A Bigger Scandal Than Phone Hacking” (Huffington Post UK Edition, Aug. 17, 2011)
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I’ll start by clicking here. Thanks for the post.
Tried explaining to my teen that the free laptops their class was getting in HS this year was not just for accessing assignments and information. Easier to track you, was met with a, “who cares?”