From CNET:WASHINGTON--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.
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My Comment: I would love to know where have all of our privacy rights advocates disappeared to. But I should not be harsh on them .... this news did not even make the main stream media.
On a side note, I have no problem with the FBI prohibiting pedophiles from using the internet, but the impact of storing internet user information for the FBI has national security consequences that cannot be underestimated. But for some reason .... this is a debate that no one wants to go into.
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