Comments on: Some Objections to DOJ’s Data Retention Proposal http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/06/05/some-objections-to-dojs-data-retention-proposal/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:32:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Info/Law » Spying, Sharing, Stealing: What You Have In Common with the NSA and RIAA http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/06/05/some-objections-to-dojs-data-retention-proposal/comment-page-1/#comment-268 Info/Law » Spying, Sharing, Stealing: What You Have In Common with the NSA and RIAA Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:40:45 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/06/05/some-objections-to-dojs-data-retentio#comment-268 [...] This may be helpful. The National Security Agency, with the helpful assistance of major phone companies, is aggregating data about our phone calls to try to discern patterns that indicate terrorist behavior. The Administration wants ISPs to retain data about consumers’ Internet usage to combat child pornography. (Note that Bill, Ed Felten, and Nart among others have raised serious concerns about false positives and other flaws.) I can download operating systems, music, and books for little or no cost. [...] [...] This may be helpful. The National Security Agency, with the helpful assistance of major phone companies, is aggregating data about our phone calls to try to discern patterns that indicate terrorist behavior. The Administration wants ISPs to retain data about consumers’ Internet usage to combat child pornography. (Note that Bill, Ed Felten, and Nart among others have raised serious concerns about false positives and other flaws.) I can download operating systems, music, and books for little or no cost. [...]

]]> By: Kevin Marks http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/06/05/some-objections-to-dojs-data-retention-proposal/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Kevin Marks Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:10:57 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/06/05/some-objections-to-dojs-data-retentio#comment-154 There is a lot of information on similar efforts (which are closer to legislation) in Europe here: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/category/data-retention in particular: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2005/08/16/data-retention-in-the-eu-your-digital-rights-at-risk/ summarized as: "40,000 terabytes of useless, illegal communications traffic surveillance data, paid for by you, the surveilled" There is a lot of information on similar efforts (which are closer to legislation) in Europe here:

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/category/data-retention

in particular:

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2005/08/16/data-retention-in-the-eu-your-digital-rights-at-risk/

summarized as:
“40,000 terabytes of useless, illegal communications traffic surveillance data, paid for by you, the surveilled”

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