Sorry Mark but the technology required would be expensive and the amount of storage required to do so would be astronomical. It's not economically feasible, would cause a jump in rates for users and simply shouldn't be done, period. -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
Sorry Mark but the technology required would be expensive and the amount of storage required to do so would be astronomical. It's not economically feasible, would cause a jump in rates for users and simply shouldn't be done, period.
I'm pretty sure someone's going to do it. It's just a question of whether it's the ISPs or the NSA. If it's done by the government, it won't be as simple as applying existing laws prohibiting telcos from revealing information except under well-defined circumstances. It will require oversight individual rights to access/view their data for integrity.
I don't think "it's not possible" will rule the day. Either the government will do it, or it will become an accepted cost of using the internet.
Like, when someone proposed licensing cars 100 years ago. I'm sure there were people who said "it's not feasible. It will cost too much." Today the cost of cars being uniquely identified, and states managing a database is just accepted as the cost of driving (even though it infringes on my perfect freedom of movement.).
It could be as simple as a paradigm shift such as that.
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