DOJ proposes US data-rentention law.

[Trei, Peter]

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Cyber Security Plan Contemplates U.S. Data Retention Law
http://online.securityfocus.com/news/486

Internet service providers may be forced into wholesale spying 
on their customers as part of the White House's strategy for 
securing cyberspace.

By Kevin Poulsen, Jun 18 2002 3:46PM

An early draft of the White House's National Strategy to Secure 
Cyberspace envisions the same kind of mandatory customer data 
collection and retention by U.S. Internet service providers as was
recently enacted in Europe, according to sources who have reviewed 
portions of the plan. 

In recent weeks, the administration has begun doling out bits and 
pieces of a draft of the strategy to technology industry members 
and advocacy groups. A federal data retention law is suggested
briefly in a section drafted in part by the U.S. Justice Department. 

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