Federal Government Wants Your Internet Records
Yeah, kiddie porn. Right. What about the political and moral pornography that these whores to power and mammon are peddling every day over our airwaves, as well as on the net?
This is the perfume for the pig. They could care less about ‘protecting our children’. This is all about having the power to monitor, track and maintain constant surveillance over anyone and everyone who may be deemed ‘enemies of the state’ (emphasis on ’state’, of course, not nation, country or people).
Gonzales Wants New Web Rules
Attorney General: ISPs Should Preserve Customer Info To Help Fight Kid Porn
Washington, Sept. 19th, 2006
Associated PressAttorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Congress should require Internet service providers to preserve customer records, asserting that prosecutors need them to fight child pornography.
Testifying to a Senate panel, Gonzales acknowledged the concerns of some company executives who say legislation might be overly intrusive and encroach on customers’ privacy rights. But he said the growing threat of child pornography over the Internet was too great.
“This is a problem that requires federal legislation,” Gonzales told the Senate Banking Committee. “We need information. Information helps us makes cases.”
He called the government’s lack of access to customer data the biggest obstacle to deterring child porn.
“We have to find a way for Internet service providers to retain information for a period of time so we can go back with a legal process to get them,” he said.
Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller have met with several Internet service providers, including Time Warner Inc.’s AOL, Comcast Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc.
The law enforcement officials have indicated to the companies they must retain customer records, possibly for two years. The companies have discussed strengthening their retention periods “which currently run the gamut from a few days to about a year” to help avoid legislation.
At Tuesday’s hearing, Gonzales said he agreed with the sentiment of 49 state attorneys general who in a June letter to Congress expressed support for a federal law that would require longer retention of customer records.
“We respect civil liberties but we have to harmonize this so we can get more information,” he said.
The subject has prompted some alarm among Internet service provider executives and civil liberties groups after the Justice Department took Google to court earlier this year to force it to turn over information on customer searches. Civil liberties groups also have sued Verizon and other telephone companies, alleging they are working with the government to provide information without search warrants on subscriber calling records.
Justice Department officials have said that any proposal would not call for the content of communications to be preserved and would keep the information in the companies’ hands. The data could be obtained by the government through a subpoena or other lawful process.
Big Brother is watching. For the kids of course.
on September 26th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
There are whole groups of people in this country who I call the “controllers,” and that is what they like to do the best. Many Republicans fall into this catagory. Look at all of their social agenda. Pretty soon we will be told how to go to the bathroom, including how many times to wipe. They’re like nightmare relatives.
on September 29th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
I think the US government’s character and identity has permitted conspiratorial and clandestine practices for as long as America has had a federal government. I agree that the internet search records example would appear to be a smokescreen allowing government agencies to monitor the activities of private citizens. The ‘protect the children’ label is a good one for justifying such activities as moral and for the common good. However, in the end one only need examine the US government’s record on covert operations to realise that secret breaches of human rights and privacy laws are commonplace in a state adamant to remain the world’s only real ’superpower’.