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Qwest: Record Retention a Good Idea
First broadband provider to apparently think so

CNET's political beat writer reports that Qwest today applauded the idea of federal laws mandating that ISPs retain user records. "Jennifer Mardosz, Qwest's corporate counsel and chief privacy officer, applauded efforts by politicians to force broadband providers to engage in so-called "data retention," which Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said will aid in terrorism and child exploitation investigations."

As the report notes, this is the first time a broadband ISP has actually applauded this idea. Recall that Gonzalez pitched record tracking to ISP execs last month under the umbrella of fighting child-pornography with limited results. Five major service providers in June formed a new coalition aimed at fighting child pornography on-line.

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wifi4milez
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No problems here!

Selective "data retention" for the purpose of stopping child molesters and terrorists is a GOOD THING. The government would only start looking at a specific person (or group) more closely if they did something to warrant further inspection. For those who will obviously start crying about this, lets just clarify what they are proposing. The idea is not to create a dossier on EVERY subscriber, rather, massive amounts of data are randomly gathered (and NOT looked at) unless there is a criminal investigation. At that point prosecutors can "back track" and possibly find out what activity originated from a specific IP address.