FBI director wants ISPs to track users

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Robert Mueller becomes latest Bush administration official to call for ISPs to store customers' data.
By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: October 17, 2006, 4:18 PM PDT
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FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday called on Internet service providers to record their customers' online activities, a move that anticipates a fierce debate over privacy and law enforcement in Washington next year.

"Terrorists coordinate their plans cloaked in the anonymity of the Internet, as do violent sexual predators prowling chat rooms," Mueller said in a speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Boston.
ISP snooping time line

In events that were first reported by CNET News.com, Bush administration officials have said Internet providers must keep track of what Americans are doing online.

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Notice the already established moral panic on "sexual predators" and how they blend it with terrorism. They can already track predators and do it all the time on Dateline's "To Catch a Predator." They always want more.

[Duer 157099]

1. Tune in for next week's Dateline:

"To Catch A Democrat"

(ok, maybe not next week, maybe not next month, but it's coming)

[madmusic]

4. And open concentration camps.

For all the enemy combatants who know what an idiot BushCo is.

[blogslut]

2. "violent"

"sexual predators"

So, according to the article there's already a law in place where govt. agents can ask ISPs to retain data for 90 days. But your OP is right, they just want more.

[JCMach1]

3. Time to encrypt everything... including chat...

:grr:

[mmonk]

5. I want my ISP to track the FBI director.