The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good

Re:The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good by roc on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @02:22PM (#2838170)

You're quoting from the bill as drafted at the end of May. The uproar is over a last-minute re-write that changed the retention requirement to include names, banking information, etc and a vote that rejected an amendment to overturn that change.

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.

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Re:The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good by DenisM on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @02:48PM (#2838264)

I got this quote by clicking through the article. And pretty much every single article I have seen before links to the same place. No one has the new wording, yet everyone is freaking out about it.

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.

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Re:The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good by roc on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @10:53AM (#2841389)

> "This requirement changes nothing for the vast majority of the people."

How can you be so certain when we don't have the amended text?

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Re:The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good by DenisM on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @01:01PM (#2841907)

Is this clearer?

even if they collect CC and other information pertaining to the person... [] This requirement changes nothing []

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Re:The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good by JeffffreyF on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @05:28PM (#2838782)

Really, really bad news travels oh so fast.

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