BUSH REGIME WANTS MORE SPY POWER OVER INTERNET
CNET - The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance
push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads
photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal
and choose to investigate. . . That proposal surfaced in a private
meeting during which U.S. Department of Justice officials, including
Assistant Attorney General Rachel Brand, tried to convince industry
representatives such as AOL and Comcast that data retention would be
valuable in investigating terrorism, child pornography and other crimes.
. . A second purpose of the meeting in Washington, D.C., according to
the sources, was to ask Internet service providers how much it would
cost to record details on their subscribers for two years. At the very
least, the companies would be required to keep logs for police of which
customer is assigned a specific Internet address.
Only universities and libraries would be excluded, one participant said.
"There's a PR concern with including the libraries, so we're not going
to include them," the participant quoted the Justice Department as
saying. "We know we're going to get a pushback, so we're not going to do
that."
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CNET - The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance
push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads
photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal
and choose to investigate. . . That proposal surfaced in a private
meeting during which U.S. Department of Justice officials, including
Assistant Attorney General Rachel Brand, tried to convince industry
representatives such as AOL and Comcast that data retention would be
valuable in investigating terrorism, child pornography and other crimes.
. . A second purpose of the meeting in Washington, D.C., according to
the sources, was to ask Internet service providers how much it would
cost to record details on their subscribers for two years. At the very
least, the companies would be required to keep logs for police of which
customer is assigned a specific Internet address.
Only universities and libraries would be excluded, one participant said.
"There's a PR concern with including the libraries, so we're not going
to include them," the participant quoted the Justice Department as
saying. "We know we're going to get a pushback, so we're not going to do
that."
http://news.com.com/Justice+Department+takes+aim+at+image-
sharing+sites/2100-1028_3-6163679.html?tag=nefd.top
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