Lovely new bad legislation just made it through committee that requires…

“…the firm that sells you Internet access would be required to track all of your Internet activity and save it for 18 months, along with your name, the address where you live, your bank account numbers, your credit card numbers, and IP addresses you’ve been assigned.”

This is the lovely guts of the exploitation-legislation (like that term, I just made it up) of “The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011”.

“As written, The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 doesn’t require that someone be under investigation on child pornography charges in order for police to access their Internet history — being suspected of any crime is enough. (It may even be made available in civil matters like divorce trials or child custody battles.) Nor do police need probable cause to search this information. As Rep. James Sensenbrenner says, (R-Wisc.) “It poses numerous risks that well outweigh any benefits, and I’m not convinced it will contribute in a significant way to protecting children.”

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“And you’d think that lots of tea partiers, with all their talk about overzealous government and intrusions on private industry, would object. But they haven’t.”

Here’s hoping it doesn’t make it anywhere.

whole story: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/the-legislation-that-could-kill-internet-privacy-for-good/242853/