Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations.The legislation, which echoes a measure proposed by one of their Democratic colleagues three years ago, would impose unprecedented data retention requirements on a broad swath of Internet access providers and is certain to draw fire from businesses and privacy advocates.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10168114-38.htmlISPs worry that Net safety bills would outlaw e-mail
Two new federal proposals that Republican supporters claim will protect children have alarmed Internet companies, who say the measures could make it a crime to provide e-mail.The bills, each named the Internet Safety Act and announced at a press conference on Thursday, have mostly attracted attention for a sweeping requirement saying broadband providers and Wi-Fi access points must keep records on users for two years.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10168704-38.htmlProposed law might make Wi-Fi users help cops [IDG]
A proposed U.S. law would require Internet service providers to store information about every user of their services and keep that data for at least two years, in a bid to crack down on Internet-based predators and child pornographers.The language of the law may even apply to owners of home Wi-Fi routers, according to a digital rights attorney.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/022109-proposed-law-might-make-wi-fi.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/159967/.htmlMisguided Online Child-Safety Laws Will Hurt Business
Do you think Congress has given any thought to what its latest effort to police the Internet is going to cost? Not just the cost to Internet Service Providers, like AT&T and Comcast, but also to anyone who offers Internet access to anyone, potentially including you and me?Two bills currently under consideration both include the same language: “A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user.”
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/159958/.html
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/022109-misguided-online-child-safety-laws-will.htmlProposed Law Saves Internet User Data
In the most recent effort to thwart child predators online, both the U.S. House and Senate are considering bills that would require any Internet access provider — possibly including public Wi-Fi hotspots — to retain Internet user data for up to two years.The bills, S.436 in the Senate and H.R.1076 in the House, are both titled “Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today’s Youth Act of 2009” or the “SAFETY Act” and state that “a provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user.”
http://www.pcworld.com/article/159910/.html
US bill proposes ISPs, Wi-Fi keep logs for police
Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations.