The FBI Wants To Monitor Your Internet Usage

Carl Andrews | February 6, 2010 

Anyone who has a problem with some of (or all) of the provisons of the Partiot Act will be up in arms if the government starts tracking what web sites they visit.

The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.

FBI Director Robert Mueller supports storing Internet users’ “origin and destination information,” a bureau attorney said at a federal task force meeting on Thursday.

As far back as a 2006 speech, Mueller had called for data retention on the part of Internet providers, and emphasized the point two years later when explicitly asking Congress to enact a law making it mandatory. But it had not been clear before that the FBI was asking companies to begin to keep logs of what Web sites are visited, which few if any currently do.

The FBI is not alone in renewing its push for data retention. As CNET reported earlier this week, a survey of state computer crime investigators found them to be nearly unanimous in supporting the idea. Matt Dunn, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the Department of Homeland Security, also expressed support for the idea during the task force meeting.

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One Response to “The FBI Wants To Monitor Your Internet Usage”

  1. Judy Doyle on February 7th, 2010 7:50 am

    Did you know that Robert Mueller is a suck up to Diane Feinstein? She is the one criminal who pushed to get this hen-pecked weasle into the leadership position he currently has. He began as special agent in charge in Sacramento. He is as mentally ill as Feinstein. They make an extraordinary sick pair!

    So, if you are monitoring this Mueller, know that I think you are a weak, unstable little weasle.

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