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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 12:34 AM
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Internet, Phone Firms Gird for Gov't Privacy Fight...
Recordkeeping Battle Looms

'San Francisco -- Big Internet and telephone companies are girding to fight an unprecedented call by the Bush administration for them to keep detailed records of customers' online activities for two years.

The request by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III would dramatically expand the government's ability to track what people do online and with whom they communicate.

It follows disclosure that the Justice Department had solicited potentially billions of online search queries from some of the same companies and that the National Security Agency had requested calling records of virtually all U.S. customers.

Gonzales and Mueller asked Google Inc., AOL and other companies to preserve the data at a May 26 meeting, citing their value to investigations into child-pornography distribution and terrorism. Internet companies typically keep customer histories for only a few days or weeks.' http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fi-internet2jun02,0,6144735.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 06:15 AM
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 06:24 AM
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2. I am sending this link to my IP guys... along with a copy
of their "privacy" statement. I am also suggesting that they get on the right side of it, publicly, very soon.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 06:32 AM
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3. thanks for your interest, annabanana, seems important to me as well...
better to be on the proper side of these these days :-)
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 04:59 AM
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