House Rep Lamar Smith of Texas just can’t get enough of a good thing. He’s proposed a new bill that would require ISPs to record all users’ surfing activity, IM conversations, and email traffic and apparently hang on to it indefinitely. Of course the bill has a name like “The Safety Act” and seeks to aid the fight against child porn.
The privacy rights screamers are screaming on this one. (Good thing.) But it is all for naught. If the government doesn’t already have this stuff, Google does.
Via Crooks and Liars
