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<blockquote data-quote="HMFIC" data-source="post: 1584350" data-attributes="member: 7539"><p>I'm against it.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: navy">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. By a 7-16 vote, the panel rejected an amendment that would have clarified that only IP addresses must be stored. </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: navy"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: navy">It represents "a data bank of every digital act by every American" that would "let us find out where every single American visited Web sites," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill. </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: navy"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: navy">Lofgren said the data retention requirements are easily avoided because they only apply to "commercial" providers. Criminals would simply go to libraries or Starbucks coffeehouses and use the Web anonymously, she said, while law-abiding Americans would have their activities recorded. </span></p> </p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/#ixzz1TWsdPj4N" target="_blank">http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/#ixzz1TWsdPj4N</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HMFIC, post: 1584350, member: 7539"] I'm against it. [INDENT][INDENT][COLOR="navy"]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. By a 7-16 vote, the panel rejected an amendment that would have clarified that only IP addresses must be stored. It represents "a data bank of every digital act by every American" that would "let us find out where every single American visited Web sites," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill. Lofgren said the data retention requirements are easily avoided because they only apply to "commercial" providers. Criminals would simply go to libraries or Starbucks coffeehouses and use the Web anonymously, she said, while law-abiding Americans would have their activities recorded. [/COLOR][/INDENT][/INDENT] [url]http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/#ixzz1TWsdPj4N[/url] [/QUOTE]
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