House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill

[osoab]

House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill (http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/)



By a 19 to 10 vote, a House committee votes to require Internet service providers to keep track of what their users are doing for one year in case it would be useful for future police investigations.

Internet providers would be forced to keep logs of their customers' activities for one year--in case police want to review them in the future--under legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved today.

The 19 to 10 vote represents a victory for conservative Republicans, who made data retention their first major technology initiative (http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029393-281.html) after last fall's elections, and the Justice Department officials who have quietly lobbied for the sweeping new requirements, a development first reported by CNET (http://news.cnet.com/Your-ISP-as-Net-watchdog/2100-1028_3-5748649.html).

(http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/07/28/house.judiciary.png) House Judiciary committee prepares to vote on sweeping data retention mandate.
(Credit: U.S. House of Representatives)

A last-minute rewrite of the bill expands the information that commercial Internet providers are required to store to include customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses, some committee members suggested. By a 7-16 vote, the panel rejected an amendment that would have clarified that only IP addresses must be stored.

This is one hell of a quote coming from John Conyers.

"The bill is mislabeled," said Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the panel. "This is not protecting children from Internet pornography. It's creating a database for everybody in this country for a lot of other purposes."


(http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20061472-281.html)warned (http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20061472-281.html) that wireless providers must be included because "when this information is not stored, it may be impossible for law enforcement to collect essential evidence."

rest at link.


Internet Surveillance Bill, WORSE Than SOPA: Explained

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PBVqm2W56c8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PBVqm2W56c8

[Ares]

Joe 6 Pack, Mad Franks, Gallio. Would it be beneficial to have a "Secure" site, by making it all https? That way whatever the ISP logs is just encrypted hash characters.

I no longer use joogle. I have switched to startpage.com scroogle doesn't appear to be an option anymore. I've changed my FTP server to only accept SFTP (SSH FTP) connections and to ignore unsecured request. So maybe that's something the site administrators might be interested in looking at.

[osoab]

a related story.

Might be good info for those traveling abroad.

UK to spy on all online communications (http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/news/uk-spy-all-online-communications)


The British government is to exert more control over the public by storing the details of British people’s communications including every phone call, text message and email.

The British government will order phone companies and broadband providers to record the details of all phone calls, text messages, and emails and restore the data for one year, reported the Telegraph on Saturday.

Britain’s new spy plans will also target social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter as the details of direct messages communicated between the users are to be recorded.

The change in the social media has been a concern for the British government at the times of crisis such as the unprecedented unrest which swept across the country in August last year.

Exerting more control over British public’s communication via social media is a preventative measure taken by the British government to spy on people and limit their access to the means of communication.

The Telegraph revealed that Britain’s Home Office has been engaged in negotiations with internet providers for two months.

The spy plans have been drawn up by the country’s intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 in collaboration with the GCHQ, Britain's secretive agency of intelligence experts.

Big Brother Watch, a campaign group defending individual privacy and civil liberties, described the British government’s decision as “shameful” as saying, “Britain is already one of the most spied on countries off-line,” online spying on the British public would be another invasion on their privacy.

Source: Press TV (http://www.presstv.ir/detail/227514.html), 19 Feb 2012



The Telegraph article that was mentioned.
UK to spy on all online communications (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/9090617/Phone-and-email-records-to-be-stored-in-new-spy-plan.html)

[osoab]

Looks like a trifecta.

What is going on in Australia and New Zealand in regards to the ISP snooping?

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Canada: Section 34 of the Online Surveillance Bill Would Give Orwellian Powers to Government-Appointed ‘Inspectors’ (http://cryptogon.com/?p=27662)


Via: CBC (http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/16/pol-vp-terry-milewski-bill-c30.html):
Among other things, the bill requires ISPs to install surveillance technology and software to enable monitoring of phone and internet traffic. Section 34 is there to make sure ISPs comply. So what, exactly, does it say?

Essentially, it says that government agents may enter an ISP when they wish, without a warrant, and demand to see absolutely everything — including all data anywhere on the network — and to copy it all. If that seems hard to believe, let’s walk through it.

First, Section 33 tells us that, “The Minister may designate persons or classes of persons as inspectors for the purposes of the administration and enforcement of this Act.” So we’re not talking about police officers necessarily. We’re talking about anyone the minister chooses — or any class of persons. (Musicians? Left-handed hockey players? Members of the Conservative Party? Sure, that’s absurd — but the bill allows it…)

Next, Section 34 spells out the sweeping powers of these “inspectors.” And, if they sound Orwellian, welcome to the world of Section 34.

The inspectors may “enter any place owned by, or under the control of, any telecommunications service provider in which the inspector has reasonable grounds to believe there is any document, information, transmission apparatus, telecommunications facility or any other thing to which this Act applies.”
And, once he or she is in, anything goes.

The inspector, says the bill, may “examine any document, information or thing found in the place and open or cause to be opened any container or other thing.” He or she may also “use, or cause to be used, any computer system in the place to search and examine any information contained in or available to the system.”

You read that right. The inspector gets to see “any” information that’s in or “available to the system.” Yours, mine, and everyone else’s emails, phone calls, web surfing, shopping, you name it. But, if that sounds breath-taking enough, don’t quit now because the section is still not done.

The inspector — remember, this is anyone the minister chooses — is also empowered to copy anything that strikes his or her fancy. The inspector may “reproduce, or cause to be reproduced, any information in the form of a printout, or other intelligible output, and remove the printout, or other output, for examination or copying.”

Oh, and he can even use the ISP’s own computers and connections to copy it or to email it to himself. He can “use, or cause to be used, any copying equipment or means of telecommunication at the place.”

In short, there’s nothing the inspector cannot see or copy. “Any” information is up for grabs. And you thought the new airport body scanners were intrusive?
Finally, note that such all-encompassing searches require no warrant, and don’t even have to be in the context of a criminal investigation. Ostensibly, the purpose is to ensure that the ISP is complying with the requirements of the act — but nothing in the section restricts the inspector to examining or seizing only information bearing upon that issue. It’s still “any” information whatsoever.

[sirgonzo420]

Joe 6 Pack, Mad Franks, Gallio. Would it be beneficial to have a "Secure" site, by making it all https? That way whatever the ISP logs is just encrypted hash characters.

I no longer use joogle. I have switched to startpage.com scroogle doesn't appear to be an option anymore. I've changed my FTP server to only accept SFTP (SSH FTP) connections and to ignore unsecured request. So maybe that's something the site administrators might be interested in looking at.

This

[osoab]

bump

While .gov looks over your shoulder, Twitter is selling you out too.

Twitter opens old posts for sale (http://au.news.yahoo.com/tech-news/a/-/technology/13046742/twitter-sells-old-tweets)



If you thought your old (embarrassing, awkward and regrettable) posts on social networking site Twitter had vanished or were out of reach for anyone, think again.

Twitter has opened up its archive of tweets for sale that will allow businesses access to every single update by a user over the last two years.

Partnering with Dataswift, a UK-based company, Twitter will offer the firm’s business partners the chance to sift through 24 months of people's Tweets.
Twitter users are only able to access their own tweets from seven days ago.
Datasift’s marketing manager Tim Barker told The Telegraph that the service, which costs A$938 (£635) a month for an entry level package, will help businesses "understand their customers better".

However this deal with Dataswift is not exclusive.

The Daily Mail reports more than 1,000 companies have joined a waiting list to use the marketing goldmine.

Datasift also offers additional information such as where users are when they Tweet, located via the GPS in their phones.

However, there are concerns that this deal is intrusive and poses a potential danger to the users’ privacy.

"Marketers will stop at nothing to get hold of your data. This move shows that all those throwaway tweets have suddenly become a rich new revenue stream for twitter, much in the same way that Facebook has monetised its offering," Justin Basini, CEO of Allow, a data privacy company told The Daily Mail.

"And the worst thing is, you never knew it was going to happen. It just goes to show that online privacy is a rare thing indeed," Basini reckons.

[Twisted Titan]

, Twitter will offer the firm’s business partners the chance to sift through 24 months of people's Tweets. Twitter users are only able to access their own tweets from seven days ago.


That is just too fricken funny.....You can't access something from 8 days ago but a business can find out something from two years ago.....and nobody is scrathing their head on that one

[gunDriller]

the Joos are buying up the Internet. trying to anyway.

How did SAIC-affiliated InterNIC get the original monopoly for domain registration ?

Why did Google get USENET - FOR FREE ? ... which is a ghost of its former self. the loss of Quality is not something that can be attributed to the growth of the WWW.