This was posted last week on Wired. It is worth noting because it raises substantial concerns in various sectors. On the university end of things, it would greatly impact storage requirements and require modification of retention policy. It also raises concerns about privacy, although I am not sure in this day and age anyone can still expect privacy with regard to how one spends their time online.
Feds Propose Storing Internet User Data for 2 Years
By David Kravets
February 20, 2009
In the name of combating child pornography, federal lawmakers are proposing that internet users’ online surfing habits be retained for two years.
The so-called “Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today’s Youth Act of 2009,” or SAFETY Act, was floated in both the House and Senate on Thursday.
Among other things, it demands: “A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user.”
In short, if approved, everybody from employers to ISPs to coffee shops and universities would be required to keep logs of all data associated with IP addresses assigned randomly to individual users – from e-mail logins to search queries to sites visited, legal experts said.
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