Data Retention

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Data Retention Laws

If you thought that your government had long term access to all your communication, including what you type in your personal emails, chat, web-forums and all of your phone communication you might be less inclined to express your opinions about your government. Heavens forbid we don’t want to be labeled a non-patriot by our respective governments.

You could end up in a detainment camp and treated as an “Enemy Combatant” held with no legal rights indefinitely if and when the Government declares martial law. Canada’s security certificate is an example of that type of Government disregard for human rights, as is Guantanamo Bay

Recent discussions with ISP’s in the US spearheaded by the Bush administration's attorney general Gonzales have requested that all communication logs be retained for upwards of three years. The pretense for these measures has been justified primarily as steps against child-porn. My opinion is that is simply an easy sell job as the majority of people would agree and go along with it, in recent days Gonzales has mentioned anti-terrorist benefits as well.

In and around Dec 2002 The NSA paid a visit to a ATT peering centre and installed a Narus STA 6400 "The Ultimate Net Monitoring Tool", this Wired article is a good read on the NSA's wiring of the Internet.

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Related Laws

The UK law that allows such erosion of human rights is based on ATCSA, Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act of 2001. The US laws were tabled as the Patriot Act H.R.3162 in 2001.

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