ISP Recording Data for One Year

[Libertador]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/

The United States Federal Government now requires that ISPs record your data for one year to allow for investigators to check your Internet usage without needing to acquire your computer.

So the Government now is requiring ISPs to record terabytes and terabytes of "...customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses..." The implication of this being that you are trusting your ISP to actively secure oodles and oodles of data from any disgruntled employee or hacker.

So I'm going to rent a VPN from Russia (The Russian government always refuses data extradition) and use Tor now.

[AnonymousOne]

Relax, it still needs to pass the house, and then go before the Senate. It just went through a committee, it'll probably be killed soon.

Still, using a VPN and Tor isn't a bad idea in any case. ;)

[Libertador]

Relax, it still needs to pass the house, and then go before the Senate. It just went through a committee, it'll probably be killed soon.

Still, using a VPN and Tor isn't a bad idea in any case. ;) I am still scared. :(

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Recording and storing data costs the ISPs valuable money. They won't agree to this unless the government defrays the costs.