House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill

[dro]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/

Internet providers would be forced to keep logs of their customers' activities for one year--in case police want to review them in the future--under legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved today.



A last-minute rewrite of the bill expands the information that commercial Internet providers are required to store to include customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses, some committee members suggested.



To make it politically difficult to oppose, proponents of the data retention requirements dubbed the bill the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011

"The bill is mislabeled," said Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the panel. "This is not protecting children from Internet pornography. It's creating a database for everybody in this country for a lot of other purposes."

Here we go again with corporations, bankers and freedom hating politicians readily trying to police the U.S. by forcing these laws down their throats.

And to name it Protecting children from internet pornographers act, is down right fucking disgusting because it has nothing to do with that. Its only agenda is to use it to scare people into not voting against it, because if you vote against something thats named, "Protecting children from internet pornographers act", youre essentially voting for pedophiles? These guys are jokes.

 

[CuraHack]

Al the more reason to use a encrypted VPN :facepalm:

 

[Djlatino]

if only i knew where to get a VPN.

 

[Cory]

I believe it's against the law to "Store Credit Card Numbers" without the "Credit Card Holders" permission and they have the right to remove those cards and they can no longer store those cards otherwise they could be held accountable for storing credit cards and any information derived from those cards could be easily thrown out of court.