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Listen to the report. It affects everyone here.
It talkes about how the US Justice dept. is looking at using ISPs to get IP adresses of child touchers and Terrorist. as of right now, the Justrice Dept. has to first request this from ISP before any recording is done.
What some are proposing is for ISP to have to record all the actions of every IP adress in the US, for not only kid touchers and terrorist activity, but for every day shit, like music downloading, and regular internet usage(porn). This obviously worries the hell out of the ISPs with concerns about storage, cost and like considerations.
This is just another exemplary action in a long row of many about how we are slowly but surely loosing our privacy in the US. This has been happening since bush Sr, continued while Clinton was in office, and is now with W Bush. Its not a left wing/ right wing issue. this is an american citizen issue.
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any cost incured by the ISP would we passed on to Us, the consumers.
what about extending the use for unethical corperations, such as Enron? In theory it would work, but money talks. Just another oppertunity for someone to get a bribe.
The world is flat, and the internet is the hammer. Maybe it is time to update our laws for something so commonly used in every day activites, private or for business.