Fight Back: Congress Pushing Broad Internet Bill!

[Shea Veile]

YIKES! I'm NOT OK with this invasive bill ...



Fight Back: Congress Pushing Broad Internet Snooping Bill

"A direct assault on Internet users" is what the ACLU is calling it. A U.S. House committee has already approved HR 1981, a broad Internet snooping bill which was introduced last year.

They want to force Internet service providers to keep track of and retain their customers' information -- including your name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses.

And get this: It's authored by lead SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith.

The ACLU, EFF, Demand Progress, and 25 other civil liberties and privacy groups have expressed our opposition to this legislation. Will you join us, by emailing your lawmakers today? Just click the petition link and fill out the form.

ISPs would collect and retain your data whether or not you're accused of a crime. Supporters shamelessly dubbed it the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act," but our staunchest allies in Congress are calling it what it is: an all-encompassing Internet snooping bill.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill said, "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."

PETITION HERE!

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[rockerrick]

Don't kid yourself, their pushing to legally do so. Dont believe for one second it's not already going on! Our government did not allow something like the Internet to be developed without ways to monitor and shut down if they choose. And will do so whether or not congress passes bills giving them the authority.

[DTorrchia]

Originally Posted by rockerrick

Don't kid yourself, their pushing to legally do so. Dont believe for one second it's not already going on! Our government did not allow something like the Internet to be developed without ways to monitor and shut down if they choose. And will do so whether or not congress passes bills giving them the authority.

True enough, as long as it is NOT legal though, citizens have recourse if the government illegally obtains this information and tries to use it against them. Once it becomes law, citizens have little if any recourse should the government try to use it against them in some sort of prosecution.
That's why IMHO, broad bills like this one represent a threat to the very freedoms our country was founded on.

[GneissGuy]

The ISPs don't want to go to the trouble to keep all this information. Not to protect you, they just don't want to go to the hassle and expense to handle the information.

This law requires them to keep this information for Big Brother. If this passes, the government will start requiring them to keep more and more information on file. Before long, it will be every web site, e-mail, etc.