ISPs must hang onto data
US ISPs have been told that they must record all their customers' online transactions so that the FBI can sift through them.
According to
Cnet, FBI boss Robert Mueller said that knowing the minutia of what Americans get up to online was the only way to protect them from terrorists and paedophiles.
In a speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Boston Mueller said that terrorists coordinate their plans cloaked in the anonymity of the Internet, as did violent sexual predators prowling chat rooms. He failed to mention witches, but a few hundred years ago they might have got a mention too.
Of course he doesn't have much in the way of law yet to back up his demands that ISPs store the data, but many believe that legislation is on its way.
Current laws require data to be held for 90 days, but coppers have complained that by the time they get the snooping permits, ISPs have already deleted the data. More
here.
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