FBI, politicos renew push for ISP data retention laws

WASHINGTON—The FBI and multiple members of Congress said on Wednesday that Internet service providers must be legally required to keep records of their users’ activities for later review by police.

Their suggestions for mandatory data retention revive a push for potentially sweeping federal laws—which civil libertarians oppose—that flagged last year after the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the idea’s most prominent proponent.

FBI Director Robert Mueller told a House of Representatives committee that Internet service providers should be required to keep records of users’ activities for two years.  Read more 

If it wasn’t so filty, despicable, illegal and subversive of everything the Constitution is supposed to defend us against, you’d have to applaud the slick way the US and Mexican governments are collaborating in spying on each other’s citizens. Pesky civil libertarians demanding you at least get a bought-and-appointed judge to okay warrants to surveil people? Ship your spying equipment to MEXICO, that Switzerland of the Americas, reknown for good government, honesty, and devotion to civil liberties. They say they want this gear, and those powers, to combat “drug gangs.” Oooh, drugs. Bad. There’s no right or liberty we can’t throw away fast enough if the cause is the druuuug. Our beloved tyrants government wants these powers and this equipment to combat “terrorists.” See previous rule re: drugs. And of course once they have not just the ability but the legal right to spy on your every waking (and sleeping) action and communication, they’ll only use these powers for Good. Right? History proves this.

As an added bonus the whole program has to be done with (1) secrecy in both countries (hmm, don’t governments usually like to boast and brag loudly about Good Things they are doing for their people?) (2) via a Mexican company that’s a state-controlled monopoly (Telmex) and a US one that nobody’s ever heard of  Read more