Internet Safety
posted by Jason Mazzone
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.
February 20, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Posted in: Privacy (Electronic Surveillance)
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