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Big Brother co-opts your service provider to spy on you

IPs Logged by ISPs | 20.02.2009 20:59 | Indymedia Server Seizure | Other Press | Technology | World

Republican lawmakers have introduced companion bills in the Senate and the House entitled the Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act--or the Internet Safety Act.

Each Bill imposes the following requirement: "A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user."

The Bills appear to impose record-keeping requirements not just on traditional ISPs but on anybody operating a wireless access point (whether protected by a password or not): homes, hotels, coffee places, libraries, corporations, and schools.

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