Blown To Bits

The FBI Presses for Web Tracking

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 by Harry Lewis
But buy mirapex if you have health insurance, you'll need to talk with buying online online your insurance provider to learn the actual cost you would glyburide no prescription pay for nitrofurantoin. The absence of warnings or other information for purchase for a given drug does not indicate that the drug no prescription online or drug combination is safe, effective, or appropriate for all arcoxia for order patients or all specific uses. It is important to note cheap in malaysia that hematuria is not always a cancer symptom, and many buy sale free pharmacy other conditions can cause blood in the urine. When hematuria free buy results from cancer, it is usually because the cancer has purchase cheap cipro low cost consultation grown in the bladder, kidneys, or urethra. IC causes inflammation generic flagyl or irritation of the wall of the bladder, which may cialis overnight lead to stiffening of the bladder wall or scarring. In purchase cialis overnight delivery some cases, people with IC may have other health conditions, such.

Declan McCullagh of CNET reports that the FBI is pressing Internet Service Providers to keep records of what Web sites customers visit and to keep the logs for two years, to assist in its criminal investigations. It has also asked Congress to require ISPs to keep such logs, arguing that it is only trying to preserve the investigative capabilities it had in the telephone era: for 24 years, phone companies have been required to keep for 18 months logs of the toll calls their customers have placed. McCullagh writes,

What remains unclear are the details of what the FBI is proposing. The possibilities include requiring an Internet provider to log the Internet protocol (IP) address of a Web site visited, or the domain name such as cnet.com, a host name such as news.cnet.com, or the actual URL such as http://reviews.cnet.com/Music/2001-6450_7-0.html.

While the first three categories could be logged without doing deep packet inspection, the fourth category would require it. That could run up against opposition in Congress, which lambasted the concept in a series of hearings in 2008, causing the demise of a company, NebuAd, which pioneered it inside the United States.

Many interesting details there, in particular that the line between “content” and “non-content” information is so fuzzy on the Internet. Would search queries, for example, be content or non-content?

This is way too much information retention.

One Response to “The FBI Presses for Web Tracking”

  1. David R Says:

    Wow, not surprised but shocked at how much information will be needed to be saved. I do not agree on this request from the FBI. It will be to much freedom to be sacrificed especially considering how much invasion of privacy that this could be.