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Gonzales pressures ISPs on data retention

Declan McCullagh | May 26

CNET - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Friday urged telecommunications officials to record their customers' Internet activities, CNET News.com has learned.

In a private meeting with industry representatives, Gonzales, Mueller and other senior members of the Justice Department said Internet service providers should retain subscriber information and network data for two years, according to two sources familiar with the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Keep an eye out for confirmation of this story which currently relies on anonymous sources. ~ qB


quiet Bill May 27, 2006 - 8:31am
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Don't get it

Why are Americans being so quiet? Why are we not fighting back, for our rights and our Constitution? Why are we playing lemmings? I belong to an alumni site for the private Hollywood school I attended. You'd think all would be liberals, but there are some who think all the snooping, listening, recording is ok as it will keep us safe. I don't know how to wake these people up from their mental hibernation. Is that safety factor the reason so many are playing the 3 monkeys?

KayseJ May 27, 2006 - 9:29am
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Re: Don't get it

"Why are Americans being so quiet? Why are we not fighting back, for our rights and our Constitution?"

I guess ultimately civil liberties is a minority thing. People only get upset when it's a bread-and-butter issue.

Of course, Gonzalas's request is exactly the opposite of what you'd want ISP's to do. It's long been a practice at libraries, just to use one example, to get rid of circulation data precisely for this reason -- the longer you have it on hand, the more likely it will be abused. So out of privacy concerns, better to get rid of it ASAP.

I've always thought since we're dealing with one invasion of privacy after another by the Bush Administration, that we should just include all of these attacks on our Constitution under the heading, "Police State Express". There seems to be a pattern emerging and giving it a name might prove helpful.

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patachon May 29, 2006 - 10:33pm
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NSA / RNC link

When it is uncovered that the data collected by the NSA has been provisioned directly to the RNC for data mining purposes then we'll have an awakening.

Until then, data mining is still a very abstract concept. No one really wants to be viewed as a 'voting robot'. And even less, no one wants to feel played.

And everything the NSA does is for our own good, of course. How could their work be misused to further a political agenda. It is fully protected from such intrusions, right?

Wrong.

dhomyak May 28, 2006 - 10:59am
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