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FBI Director Wants ISPs To Track Users

Posted on Wednesday, November 01 at 11:04 by jensonj
"All too often, we find that before we can catch these offenders, Internet service providers have unwittingly deleted the very records that would help us identify these offenders and protect future victims," Mueller said. "We must find a balance between the legitimate need for privacy and law enforcement's clear need for access." The speech to the law enforcement group, which approved a resolution on the topic earlier in the day, echoes other calls from Bush administration officials to force private firms to record information about customers. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, for instance, told Congress last month that "this is a national problem that requires federal legislation." Justice Department officials admit privately that data retention legislation is controversial enough that there wasn't time to ease it through the U.S. Congress before politicians left to campaign for re-election. Instead, the idea is expected to surface in early 2007, and one Democratic politician has already promised legislation. http://news.zdnet.com/2102-1009_22-6126877.html

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  1. by boflaade
    Thu Nov 02, 2006 12:14 am
    Good thing these plots aren't done by telephone. The FBI may have problems taping the line of each and every phone in the universe. I'm sure they tried. Maybe celulars next! The US has been put in charge of the Internet and few contestants fought it. Now they dictate to the international community.

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  2. by rearguard
    Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:27 am
    "Terrorists coordinate their plans cloaked in the anonymity of the Internet, as do violent sexual predators prowling chat rooms,"

    I say that we burn down the White House along with everyone inside, and that should fix for the most part the problem of terrorism and sexual predators.

  3. by boflaade
    Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:32 am
    Terrorists coordinate their plans cloaked in the anonymity of the Internet, as do violent sexual predators prowling chat rooms,"<<

    And drive cars use phones and live in private dwellings. Are we to accept that no freedom is better.

    Yes the Whitehouse is becoming a Pita and everyone loves a bonfire.


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  4. by Diogenes
    Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:07 am
    You tech heads can correct the language I use in describing what tools are allready in place to snope on the public
    CSIS has a computer that automaticaly sets tapes to spin in resonse to certain words
    Cell phones have locators as do the newer autos buildt into them
    Google has a site that will show you your house from space
    the list goes on

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    Diogenes said:
    "I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."



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