Data retention bills to benefit copyright holders

[admin]

If a new federal proposal announced this week requiring Internet providers and Wi-Fi access points to keep records on users for two years becomes law, police would not be the only ones to benefit.

So would individuals and companies bringing civil lawsuits, including the Recording Industry Association of America and other large copyright holders, many of which have lobbied for similar data retention laws in other countries.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10168642-38.html

[doctorhardware]

This is an extremely a bad idea, I consider this an invasion of privacy.

[drfsupercenter]

Good thing for SSL encryption? Surely it would be illegal for them to try to break a user's encrypted web browsing, it would be the equivalent to me breaking ARccOS

[gadgetman2]

This just shouldn't be allowed. As doctorh says, it's an invasion of privacy to start with and will probably just result in pushing new methods to aviod it.