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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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<span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;
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font-family: arial;">August 10th, 2011</span></p>
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alt="" height="118" width="118"></a>In the
last week of July, a congressional subcommittee
took time out from arguing about government debt
to approve a bill know as H.R. 1981, or the
"Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers
Act of 2011" (PCFIPA of 2011). This bill, if
passed by Congress and signed into law, would
require Internet service providers (ISPs), the
companies that provide people's Internet
connections, to retain the personal information of
Internet users for up to 18 months. This
information would include names, IP addresses,
phone numbers, physical addresses, credit card
numbers, bank account numbers, websites visited,
and messages posted on the Web. Wireless service
providers would not be affected by the bill,
ostensibly because it would be more difficult to
distinguish individual wireless users.
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<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20078653-281/police-internet-providers-must-keep-user-logs/">Police:
Internet providers must keep user logs</a>
(CNET News/Declan McCullagh) "Michael Brown,
sheriff in Bedford County, Va., and a board
member and executive committee member of the
National Sheriffs' Association, is planning to
argue that a new law is necessary because
Internet providers do not store customer records
long enough. 'The limited data retention time
and lack of uniformity among retention from
company to company significantly hinders law
enforcement's ability to identify predators when
they come across child pornography,' according
to a copy of Brown's remarks."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_congresss_isp-logging_bill_a_violation_of_the_f.php">Is
Congress's ISP-logging bill a violation of the
Fourth Amendment?</a> (ReadWriteWeb/Dan
Rowinski) "Essentially, if the government wants,
it could track everything you have done online
for the last year and a half without a warrant
or user consent. The debate over mandatory data
retention has been evolving for nearly a decade
and has caused a ruckus among privacy groups
that claim it is a violation of civil liberties
and the Fourth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution. The Fourth Amendment states that
people should be protected from unreasonable
search and seizures."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://lifehacker.com/5825746/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-internet-snooping-bill-and-what-you-can-do-about-it">What
you need to know about the Internet snooping
bill (and how you can protect yourself)</a>
(Lifehacker/Adam Dachis) "Finding a needle in a
haystack is hard, but it gets to be pretty close
to impossible when that haystack is the size of
a country. There are too many people <em>not</em>
downloading child porn to easily locate an
offender and too few policemen to thoroughly
look through the information. Like we've seen
when the <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/10/five-years-of-failure-eff-says-riaa-must-embrace-new-model.ars">RIAA
prosecuted music downloaders with little
success</a>, you get nowhere going after the
consumers."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/unhappy-meal-data-retention-bill-could-lure-sex-predators-into-mcdonalds-libraries.ars">Unhappy
meal: Data retention bill could lure sex
predators into McDonalds, libraries</a>
(ArsTechnica/Christopher Soghoian) "If this
legislation passes with the wireless loophole
intact, residential broadband providers will be
forced to retain identifying records that can be
used to link users' online activities to their
authenticated identities. Mobile phone carriers
will continue to retain data voluntarily, and
public WiFi networks will remain one of the last
places where people, whether angels or devils,
can browse the Internet anonymously."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Numbers
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">The <em>Lifehacker</em>
article cited above calculates that there are
about 272,100,000 Americans connected to the
Internet, and about 10,000 known child pornography
consumers.
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