, 2006-06-12
A recent proposal by the U.S. Department of Justice that would mandate Internet Service Providers to retain certain records represents a dangerous trend of turning private companies into proxies for law enforcement or intelligence agencies against the interests of their clients or customers.
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The federal government, and its entities claims that this is being done to fight the war on terrorism, crime, etc. Right? However, how many episodes of corrupt federal agents -- TOP-LEVEL AGENTS -- have been arrested for child pornography, sexually explicit materials, or performing some form of embezzlement?
To me, this is the federal government's way of covering up for their actions of crime, rather than *preventing* the crime. If the federal government "owns" the log data, then it will be a federal offense to mess around with the data...unless, of course, you *are* the federal government. Would it make it right for the government to be able to tamper with its own data?
Also, if the federal government wants to maintain records and logs of ISPs, shouldn't the same be held true for where federal and military personnel surf and send their emails to? if so, then the auditing agency or organization should be independent of the federal government *and* of the ISPs. You are aksing for a "neutral third party"...to audit everyone.
Not going to happen. The federal government wants to control everything that goes into the cookie jar, but doesn't want to let anyone, who's not part of it, peak inside the cookie jar, not even for a whiff or nibble of any cookies which may exist inside the jar. Any beats that the kids from the federal government block won't want to play nicely with the other boys and girls?
I'd say that they will probably want *you* (that being us taxpayers or us corporations) to fit the bill for something that we will NEVER have access to. Um......I don't think so.
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