In the US we are about to pass a law (it already cleared committee) that requires Internet providers to record and store for at least 18 months customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses in addition to a complete record of online activity. The name of the bill? The “Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011.”
And what does the government need to do under this bill in order to gain access to this information? Ask. Under the bill all they need to do is make a request under the subsection. That’s it. No indictment, warrant, arrest, or even accusation needed, and the feds get to see every website you’ve viewed in the last 18 months, how long you viewed it for, from what IP addresses, and what your bank account numbers are.
And of course since it is named “Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers” how can it be voted against?
We must not tolerate the continued expansion of this Orwellian doublespeak. One member actually introduced an amendment to rename the bill according to its actual function. The proposed new name? The “Keep every American’s data for submission to the government without a warrant Act”
In the US we are about to pass a law (it already cleared committee) that requires Internet providers to record and store for at least 18 months customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses in addition to a complete record of online activity. The name of the bill? The “Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011.”
And what does the government need to do under this bill in order to gain access to this information? Ask. Under the bill all they need to do is make a request under the subsection. That’s it. No indictment, warrant, arrest, or even accusation needed, and the feds get to see every website you’ve viewed in the last 18 months, how long you viewed it for, from what IP addresses, and what your bank account numbers are.
And of course since it is named “Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers” how can it be voted against?
We must not tolerate the continued expansion of this Orwellian doublespeak. One member actually introduced an amendment to rename the bill according to its actual function. The proposed new name? The “Keep every American’s data for submission to the government without a warrant Act”