[AusNOG] (US) White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity

Peter Adkins peter.adkins at kernelpicnic.net
Thu Jul 29 17:14:34 EST 2010


With all of this talk about recording browsing and email history, from both
the Australian and American governments, is it maybe time to start looking
at investing in storage vendors / manufacturers? :)


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Dmitri Kalintsev <dek735 at gmail.com> wrote:

> To me, there appear to be some strong parallels with the local apparent
> plans for the "transactional records keeping".
>
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR2010072806141.html
>
> "The administration wants to add just four words -- "electronic
> communication transactional records" -- to a list of items that the law says
> the FBI may demand without a judge's approval. Government lawyers say this
> category of information includes the addresses to which an Internet user
> sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly
> a user's browser history. It does not include, the lawyers hasten to point
> out, the "content" of e-mail or other Internet communication."
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