I've put a copy of the Colorado legislation here: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/colorado.data.retention.041206.pdf Previous Politech messages: http://www.politechbot.com/2005/06/16/feds-contemplate-forcing/ http://www.politechbot.com/2005/09/23/european-commission-proposes/ http://www.politechbot.com/p-02779.html -Declan --- http://news.com.com/ISP+snooping+gaining+support/2100-1028_3-6061187.html ISP snooping gaining support April 14, 2006, 4:03 AM PDT The explosive idea of forcing Internet providers to record their customers' online activities for future police access is gaining ground in state capitols and in Washington, D.C. Top Bush administration officials have endorsed the concept, and some members of the U.S. Congress have said federal legislation is needed to aid law enforcement investigations into child pornography. A bill is already pending in the Colorado State Senate. Mandatory data retention requirements worry privacy advocates because they permit police to obtain records of e-mail chatter, Web browsing or chat-room activity that normally would have been discarded after a few months. And some proposals would require providers to retain data that ordinarily never would have been kept at all. [...] Flint Waters, head of the Wyoming's Internet Crimes Against Children task force, also is pressing for federal data retention laws... "Individuals will activate their Webcam when they're abusing a child and they'll record the sexual assault live, and it may be 45 days before law enforcement finally gets notified," Waters said. "We reach out to service providers and they say they don't maintain those records, so the child remains in that environment, and there's nothing we can do to help them." [...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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