ISPs required to track all activity for a year

Posted by By cdharris at 30 July, at 18 : 49 PM Print

While ostensibly this bill passed in order to allow law enforcement improved ability to track child pornography activity online, it is extremely broad in scope. Essentially, internet service providers (ISPs) will now be required to keep extensive records on each customer and everything they do online, and maintain those records in a revolving annual cycle. Privacy activists are concerned that the resulting huge database could be used by entities for surveillance and other purposes, without the consent or knowledge of the ISP customer.

House Panel Approves Broadened ISP Monitoring Bill: The bill requires ISPs to log their customers’ activities for one year including “customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses” for use in cases requiring police review.[CNET News]

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