US government leans on ISPs to store user data

[Jeremiah]

And who should have control over internet respectively the lack of anonymity? Are you really trusting your government enough to grant them access to your private data whenever they feel like it? I sure know that I don´t.

I feel that the ISP who provides your connection would actually have the legal right to check what pages you surf to, since you are using their connection to connect (if you know what I mean). Cable TV providers can check what channels you are watching and no one seems to mind that

 

[cHodAX]

I feel that the ISP who provides your connection would actually have the legal right to check what pages you surf to, since you are using their connection to connect (if you know what I mean). Cable TV providers can check what channels you are watching and no one seems to mind that

There is a difference, cable TV is a one way broadcast. Internet browsing and email is comms and is already covered under privacy laws in most countries, the problem is that intelligence agencies are either subverting those legal checks that are in place to get this information or when they have to they are applying under to law to bypass them. Frankly I am happy they can bypass them under law as it at least requires a judge to sign off on it and they have to present a case. What worries me is the unlawful wire tapping that has been openly acknowledged to have been going on in the U.S. since 11/9/2001, how Bush hasn't been impeached for that breach of the constitution I have no idea but I guess having the supreme court in your pocket never hurts.

 

[Dahakon]

This is a bit of an extream example, but what happens if you visit a site that says something bad about the government, and that is then logged, and the government then come and arrest you for being a "terrorist"?

Like I said its a bit extream, but what I'm trying to say is that its not only the monitering of people which is bad, but this law is a gate way to a much more totalitarian government. When people loose their right to privacy, they also loose their right to a free democratic choice, and it can enable the government to "remove" people who arn't likely to support them.

 

[Svartmetall]