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  From: Kenneth Canfield <ksc2103@columbia.edu>
  To  : <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:26:18 -0400

[CPC] "U.S. attorney general calls for 'reasonable' data retention"& Saving children

Gonzales seems to support a bill that would require ISPs to retain data
possibly including websites visited and even email or chat room
conversations (it seems unknown now exactly what would be retained or
for how long).  The government could then get the records as needed for
criminal prosecution. (See http://tinyurl.com/fgqav for the article)

Some comments:

Of course, as Eben mentioned yesterday, this is all in effort to save
children by preventing Internet sex crimes.  Perhaps I'm being overly
naive, or maybe it's because I don't have children yet, but is the
digital side of today's world more dangerous than what the "real" world
that kids were more out in the past?  The fact that kids today spend
time on the computer rather than playing outside in a park it itself a
problem for different reasons, but aren't they safer in the house, if
their safety from sex crimes is what we are worried about?  Isn't this a
time when actually talking to your kids about safe surfing habits, not
arranging to meet people in real life, etc. will reduce many risks,
rather than claiming that the Internet is evil and passing new laws
abolishing everyone's privacy?

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