Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Ever get that feeling that someone's watching you?

I'm sitting here in my office, listening in on a conference call about the NSA spying on phone calls, when I received this story from ZDNet News:

A prominent Republican on Capitol Hill has prepared legislation that would rewrite Internet privacy rules by requiring that logs of Americans' online activities be stored, CNET News.com has learned.

The proposal comes just weeks after Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Internet service providers should retain records of user activities for a "reasonable amount of time," a move that represented a dramatic shift in the Bush administration's views on privacy.

Wisconsin Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is proposing that ISPs be required to record information about Americans' online activities so that police can more easily "conduct criminal investigations."
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Sigh. Do we have to resort to paper and lemon juice for private communications now?

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