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Why Now? » Blog Archive » They Are Data Mining — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:02:48 +0000

[…] Last month Abu Gonzo needed this data to protect children, but since that didn’t seem to work, CNet is reporting that Terrorism invoked in ISP snooping proposal: In a radical departure from earlier statements, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said that requiring Internet service providers to save records of their customers’ online activities is necessary in the fight against terrorism, CNET News.com has learned. […]

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:45:53 +0000

Do these idiots have any idea how much data is involved? Do they understand how much spam will be stored? Do they understand that most e-mail programs automatically delete messages from the servers when they are retrieved? Do they understand that if you can’t find it on the individual’s computer it has zero evidentiary value in court? Who pays for this?

The people who write these laws don’t know what they are talking about, they are parroting things they have been told.

This much information stored on computers for an extended period time is an invitation for identity theft. It isn’t encrypted because it has always had such a brief lifespan.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:27:59 +0000

Those of us who objected to the PATRIOT Act in the short time between its introduction and its passage predicted that its more draconian provisions would be used not just to combat terrorism but to pursue all manner of ordinary criminal cases. From what has been made public about how the law has been used, it is clear that many of the abuses we imagined have been realized. We were right to object. No surprise there: give government institutions secret and invasive powers, and they will use them.

Any attempt to create some sort of “Akashic Records” of the internet, whatever else it accomplishes, is guaranteed to obliterate any notion of individual privacy. Are we to protect the children (“the children! what about the children!”) by bequeathing them a surveillance state?