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FBI Wants To Pay ISPs For Your Data
Posted by: Tweaker
Date added: 22:29, 25th July 2007 GMT
Source: The Washington Post
Friendly policies at the FCC apparently aren't enough; Uncle Sam (specifically the FBI) wants to pay major telecommunications companies to retain their customers' Internet and phone call information for at least two years. As you might expect, civil liberties groups aren't impressed:
"[The proposal"> is circumventing the law by paying companies to do something the FBI couldn't do itself legally," said Michael German, American Civil Liberties Union policy counsel on national security. "Going around the Fourth Amendment by paying private companies to hoard our phone records is outrageous."
The FBI is asking Congress for $5 million a year to fund the idea. The DOJ has been pushing hard for data retention laws for several years. The Post notes that Telecoms are already charging the government $1.8 million per year for access to user data, but this new program would "deliver the information expeditiously in electronic form."
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23:15, 25th July 2007
This is just messed up and wrong. See how you can't trust any of them, if they don't trust you. what they will find is a lot of people on XXX sites and making calls to family/friends. I think its getting out of hand.
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