House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill

Who are they trying to protect? Just like gun control, the only people who get investigated and have a "dossier" are the law abiding or unaware innocents. Like sharks that never sleep, they just want to take a bite because they can. The administration has been pushing this and the old line Republicans are dupes.

House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill | Privacy Inc. - CNET News

by Declan McCullagh JULY 28, 2011

A last-minute rewrite of the bill expands the information that commercial Internet providers are required to store to include customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses, some committee members suggested. By a 7-16 vote, the panel rejected an amendment that would have clarified that only IP addresses must be stored.

It represents "a data bank of every digital act by every American" that would "let us find out where every single American visited Web sites," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill.

Lofgren said the data retention requirements are easily avoided because they only apply to "commercial" providers. Criminals would simply go to libraries or Starbucks coffeehouses and use the Web anonymously, she said, while law-abiding Americans would have their activities recorded.

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