CNET: Justice Dept. Seeks Data Retention on Video, Photo Uploaders

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 2, 2007 - 12:41pm.

Washington - The Bush administration has proposed that websites keep records on who is uploading videos and photos to their sites, for potential use in terrorism, child pornography and other investigations, CNET News.com reported on Friday.

At a meeting on Wednesday, Justice Dept. officials including Assistant Attorney General Rachel Brand went as far as asking representatives from firms including AOL and Comcast how much it would cost them to keep such records on their subscribers for two years, several people who attended the meeting told News.com.

After Congress set aside $500 million to reimburse phone companies for costs incurred by phone wiretapping laid out in the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, the bill easily passed in both houses.

Meeting participants told News.com the Justice Dept. did not address whether or not it was interested in anonymously posted content, or text comments on blogs, but companies would be asked to keep records on the specific IP addresses used by every customer.

The only Internet users spared under the proposal would be those at libraries and at universities, one participant told News.com.

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Published in DMW Daily, March 2, 2007

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Data retention

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on March 31, 2007 - 5:38am.

I remember the good ol days when a picture of something was sent over a shortwave radio-A basic ham radio. We used an old teletype to do it at around 3000 baud right through the air with no internet. Now days people can talk on frequencies that you don't even need a license to use like anything over the 12.0 Ghz range (Experimental area of the band) You have alot of bandwidth at that freqency and i'm sure a person could stream alot faster than 3000 baud at those frequencies VS the old way 10 meters 11 meters 80 meters. Time to start the old gear back up and get the gang back on the radios. This government snooping is only going to get worse. Seems now days the only way to talk private is to use an old fashioned CB radio that has extra frequencies installed in it along with a voice scranmbler (Frequency inversion)..... Now days if you use a digital scrambler your more prone to be heard verses an analog scrambler. Back in the 80's we had ---frequency inversion and time domain shifting to keep people with other radios from hearing and intercepting what we would say. Time to start breaking out your old gear people,light up your workshops and start breadboarding again. Find new ways to comunicate with your buds.