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Republican Legislators Introduce Internet Record-Keeping Bill

By Corey Rayburnyung

Republican legislators in the House and Senate have introduced identical bills entitled the Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act of 2009 or the SAFETY Act.  The bills impose record-keeping requirements upon both Internet Service Providers and persons who operate wireless access points. Specifically, the bills state that "[a] provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user." You can read the Senate bill here and the House bill here. From CNN:Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on February 23, 2009 (boomark / email).