So, yes, there's not much to freak out about in the May 25th draft. Which is why there wasn't a story until the middle of June when the DoJ started shopping around a proposal to expand the logs: http://news.cnet.com/Your-ISP-as-Net-watchdog/2100-1028_3-57...
And people didn't get really fired up about this particular bill, until it was amended to include some of DOJ's wishlist, and made it out of committee with those changes intact: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-a...
I can't find the amended text on Thomas, but what you've quoted is not what has everyone worked up.
But fine, even if they collect CC and other information pertaining to the person... Again Comcast and Verizon already do retain all billing information anyway. This requirement changes nothing for the vast majority of the people.
Of note, no edition of the bill proposes tracking the browsing history, yet it seems to me that most people discussing the subject assume that it does.
How can you be so certain when we don't have the amended text?
even if they collect CC and other information pertaining to the person... [] This requirement changes nothing []
`(h) Retention of Certain Records- A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least 18 months the temporarily assigned network addresses the service assigns to each account, unless that address is transmitted by radio communication (as defined in section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934).'.
That's it, that's all there is to it - DHCP assignment log preservation. My Comcast DHCP-assigned IP address did not change in over a year, chances are most people's addresses are not changing over the discussed 18-month period at all. The law changes nothing for most people.
For the government to know if you visited certain site they would still have to get the traffic logs from that site.