On Tuesday, CNET reported that the U.S. Department of Justice is urging Congress to mandate internet sevice providers (ISPs) track what their users are doing.
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To hear the Justice Department tell it, the bad people are winning. "The problem of investigations being stymied by a lack of data retention is growing worse," according to written testimony by Jason Weinstein, deputy assistant attorney general. But this doesn't really hold water when we consider the already broad powers law enforcement has to investigate and subpoena records from ISPs.
Call the proposal the latest in the "War on the Internet". Nothing frightens the Government more than information it cannot cannot track and control.
