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IT IS GOVERNMENT TRACKED AND TRACKS IF YOU WATCH PORN UNDERAGE, AND IF YOU TORRENT.
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| Code: | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The attorney general and the FBI director have asked the nation's leading Internet service companies to keep a variety of customer information and other data for two years, much longer than the companies do now, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
Companies have varying policies regarding what information is kept and for how long.
One thing the Justice Department wants is some type of subscriber information, such as the Internet address assigned to a person when logging on to a service provider, according to two sources familiar with a meeting that was held last week between the government and the Internet companies.
The online industry is expected to strongly oppose any request to retain these types of records because of privacy concerns for their customers.
"It is a slippery slope," one of the sources said of the government's interest in the information. "It becomes a fishing expedition."
The Internet companies have said there are other ways to get the information without them having to hand it over and believe requests like this are burden to the industry, the sources said.
Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said government and private industry officials are continuing to discuss the privacy issues involved and some of the concerns raised by the companies at the meeting Friday at the Justice Department.
The meeting, first reported by CNET News.com, included representatives from Verizon, Comcast, AOL (which is owned by Time Warner, as is CNN.com), Microsoft, Google and the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association, the sources told CNN. Companies involved refused to comment on the meeting.
The original request for the record retention came as part of the Justice Department's efforts to fight child pornography. During a speech last month, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he would press the CEOs of Internet service providers about retaining records.
During last week's meeting, though, the FBI "made clear they wanted [information on subscribers] for other reasons as well. ... Terrorism was mentioned," one of the sources said.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to secretly monitoring e-mail and phone calls to track people linked to terrorist activity.
Earlier this month USA Today reported three telecommunications giants provided the NSA, the nation's super secret spy agency, with records from billions of domestic phone calls after 9/11.
Another meeting of government and industry representatives is scheduled for Friday, according to an official of the Internet Service Provider Association.
Government Policy on Internet Tracking
While it's not efficient to try to track a person's Web activities with cookies, it's still a concern for privacy advocates. A government Web page could hire a corporation like DoubleClick to provide Internet cookies. In theory, DoubleClick could search its database to see if the visitor had been to any other Web site that also used DoubleClick cookies. The government could try to gather information about a user by cross-referencing all the DoubleClick cookie sites he or she visits.
Senate Internet Privacy Bill hearing
Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images
Sens. George Allen and Ernest F. Hollings discuss Internet privacy bills at a Senate Commerce meeting.
Some Internet privacy advocates don't like the idea of a governmental agency keeping information files about Web site visitors. Whether the government intends to use that information for tracking purposes is beside the point. The advocates argue that the government shouldn't keep tabs on people using cookies at all.
It may come as a surprise to conspiracy theorists, but the government more or less agrees with this perspective. In 2003, the White House's Office of Management and Budget issued a memo regarding the federal government's Internet privacy policies. The memo said that all federal government sites must post their privacy policies on an easily accessible Web page. The memo also forbids the use of persistent cookies in most cases. These are Internet cookies that remain on your hard drive even after you close your browser program [source: Office of Management and Budget].
There are some exceptions to the rule. The memo says that a federal government Web site can use persistent cookies if:
* There is a "compelling need," although the memo doesn't define what makes a need compelling
* The agency provides a clear posting in the privacy policy that alerts the user that the site has persistent cookies
* The agency explains in the privacy policy how the information in the cookie will be used
Cookies that expire once the user closes his or her browser program are exempt from these rules. Web bugs, which are images one pixel wide by one pixel tall that have many of the same properties as persistent Internet cookies, are not explicitly addressed, meaning some agencies may consider them exempt.
Despite this memo, several people have reported the use of persistent cookies on governmental Web sites. For example, the New York Times reported in 2005 that the National Security Agency (NSA) used persistent Internet cookies on its Web site that wouldn't expire until 2035. An NSA spokesperson said that the inclusion of the persistent cookies was an accident caused by a software upgrade [source: New York Times].
Many of the exposé reports about government Web sites and persistent cookies seem to be due to such accidents. Some Web page development software includes persistent cookies as a standard option. If the Web administrator doesn't know about the option, he or she might create a Web page that includes persistent cookies without being aware of it. Considering the amount of work necessary to track someone using cookies, it's likely that most of these incidents are, in fact, accidents.
To learn more about tracking activities on the Internet and related topics, follow the links on the next page
Government proposes email and internet tracking 9:01AM, Wednesday 13th August 2008
The Government will store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day" as details of every text, email and browsing session in the UK are recorded under new proposals published yesterday.
The information will be made available to police forces in order to crack down on serious crime, but will also be accessible by local councils, health authorities and even Ofsted and the Post Office.
One example of crime prevention using the data given in the consultation document is that of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency, which targets sexual abuse of children.
"The vast majority of CEOP's work is by resolution of IP addresses, e-mail addresses and increasingly mobile phone numbers.
ADVERTISEMENT
During the period March to June 2008 CEOP identified 96 suspects (who have been arrested) and safeguarded 30 children through the use of internet related data," explains the consultation document, which goes on to explain that petty crime and even instances of self harm will be tackled using the new measures.
Another example was given in which a UK citizen had been talking in an internet chatroom about self-harming, when local police tracked down his address via his IP number and ISP and intervened to save him.
However, the information will also be made available to local councils, health authorities and other Government bodies such as Ofsted.
"The main reason for it is to assist in the investigation of crime," says a Home Office spokesperson. "Each local council can make a decision for themselves on what is the most interest to them."
The move has attracted criticism from the Conservatives, however, including Dominic Grieve, the Shadow Home Secretary.
"Yet again the Government has proved itself unable to resist the temptation to take a power quite properly designed to combat terrorism to snoop on the lives of ordinary people in everyday circumstances."WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The attorney general and the FBI director have asked the nation's leading Internet service companies to keep a variety of customer information and other data for two years, much longer than the companies do now, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
Companies have varying policies regarding what information is kept and for how long.
One thing the Justice Department wants is some type of subscriber information, such as the Internet address assigned to a person when logging on to a service provider, according to two sources familiar with a meeting that was held last week between the government and the Internet companies.
The online industry is expected to strongly oppose any request to retain these types of records because of privacy concerns for their customers.
"It is a slippery slope," one of the sources said of the government's interest in the information. "It becomes a fishing expedition."
The Internet companies have said there are other ways to get the information without them having to hand it over and believe requests like this are burden to the industry, the sources said.
Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said government and private industry officials are continuing to discuss the privacy issues involved and some of the concerns raised by the companies at the meeting Friday at the Justice Department.
The meeting, first reported by CNET News.com, included representatives from Verizon, Comcast, AOL (which is owned by Time Warner, as is CNN.com), Microsoft, Google and the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association, the sources told CNN. Companies involved refused to comment on the meeting.
The original request for the record retention came as part of the Justice Department's efforts to fight child pornography. During a speech last month, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he would press the CEOs of Internet service providers about retaining records.
During last week's meeting, though, the FBI "made clear they wanted [information on subscribers] for other reasons as well. ... Terrorism was mentioned," one of the sources said.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to secretly monitoring e-mail and phone calls to track people linked to terrorist activity.
Earlier this month USA Today reported three telecommunications giants provided the NSA, the nation's super secret spy agency, with records from billions of domestic phone calls after 9/11.
Another meeting of government and industry representatives is scheduled for Friday, according to an official of the Internet Service Provider Association.
Government Policy on Internet Tracking
While it's not efficient to try to track a person's Web activities with cookies, it's still a concern for privacy advocates. A government Web page could hire a corporation like DoubleClick to provide Internet cookies. In theory, DoubleClick could search its database to see if the visitor had been to any other Web site that also used DoubleClick cookies. The government could try to gather information about a user by cross-referencing all the DoubleClick cookie sites he or she visits.
Senate Internet Privacy Bill hearing
Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images
Sens. George Allen and Ernest F. Hollings discuss Internet privacy bills at a Senate Commerce meeting.
Some Internet privacy advocates don't like the idea of a governmental agency keeping information files about Web site visitors. Whether the government intends to use that information for tracking purposes is beside the point. The advocates argue that the government shouldn't keep tabs on people using cookies at all.
It may come as a surprise to conspiracy theorists, but the government more or less agrees with this perspective. In 2003, the White House's Office of Management and Budget issued a memo regarding the federal government's Internet privacy policies. The memo said that all federal government sites must post their privacy policies on an easily accessible Web page. The memo also forbids the use of persistent cookies in most cases. These are Internet cookies that remain on your hard drive even after you close your browser program [source: Office of Management and Budget].
There are some exceptions to the rule. The memo says that a federal government Web site can use persistent cookies if:
* There is a "compelling need," although the memo doesn't define what makes a need compelling
* The agency provides a clear posting in the privacy policy that alerts the user that the site has persistent cookies
* The agency explains in the privacy policy how the information in the cookie will be used
Cookies that expire once the user closes his or her browser program are exempt from these rules. Web bugs, which are images one pixel wide by one pixel tall that have many of the same properties as persistent Internet cookies, are not explicitly addressed, meaning some agencies may consider them exempt.
Despite this memo, several people have reported the use of persistent cookies on governmental Web sites. For example, the New York Times reported in 2005 that the National Security Agency (NSA) used persistent Internet cookies on its Web site that wouldn't expire until 2035. An NSA spokesperson said that the inclusion of the persistent cookies was an accident caused by a software upgrade [source: New York Times].
Many of the exposé reports about government Web sites and persistent cookies seem to be due to such accidents. Some Web page development software includes persistent cookies as a standard option. If the Web administrator doesn't know about the option, he or she might create a Web page that includes persistent cookies without being aware of it. Considering the amount of work necessary to track someone using cookies, it's likely that most of these incidents are, in fact, accidents.
To learn more about tracking activities on the Internet and related topics, follow the links on the next page
Government proposes email and internet tracking 9:01AM, Wednesday 13th August 2008
The Government will store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day" as details of every text, email and browsing session in the UK are recorded under new proposals published yesterday.
The information will be made available to police forces in order to crack down on serious crime, but will also be accessible by local councils, health authorities and even Ofsted and the Post Office.
One example of crime prevention using the data given in the consultation document is that of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency, which targets sexual abuse of children.
"The vast majority of CEOP's work is by resolution of IP addresses, e-mail addresses and increasingly mobile phone numbers.
ADVERTISEMENT
During the period March to June 2008 CEOP identified 96 suspects (who have been arrested) and safeguarded 30 children through the use of internet related data," explains the consultation document, which goes on to explain that petty crime and even instances of self harm will be tackled using the new measures.
Another example was given in which a UK citizen had been talking in an internet chatroom about self-harming, when local police tracked down his address via his IP number and ISP and intervened to save him.
However, the information will also be made available to local councils, health authorities and other Government bodies such as Ofsted.
"The main reason for it is to assist in the investigation of crime," says a Home Office spokesperson. "Each local council can make a decision for themselves on what is the most interest to them."
The move has attracted criticism from the Conservatives, however, including Dominic Grieve, the Shadow Home Secretary.
"Yet again the Government has proved itself unable to resist the temptation to take a power quite properly designed to combat terrorism to snoop on the lives of ordinary people in everyday circumstances."
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| Diamonds wrote: | IT IS GOVERNMENT TRACKED AND TRACKS IF YOU WATCH PORN UNDERAGE, AND IF YOU TORRENT.
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| Code: | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The attorney general and the FBI director have asked the nation's leading Internet service companies to keep a variety of customer information and other data for two years, much longer than the companies do now, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
Companies have varying policies regarding what information is kept and for how long.
One thing the Justice Department wants is some type of subscriber information, such as the Internet address assigned to a person when logging on to a service provider, according to two sources familiar with a meeting that was held last week between the government and the Internet companies.
The online industry is expected to strongly oppose any request to retain these types of records because of privacy concerns for their customers.
"It is a slippery slope," one of the sources said of the government's interest in the information. "It becomes a fishing expedition."
The Internet companies have said there are other ways to get the information without them having to hand it over and believe requests like this are burden to the industry, the sources said.
Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said government and private industry officials are continuing to discuss the privacy issues involved and some of the concerns raised by the companies at the meeting Friday at the Justice Department.
The meeting, first reported by CNET News.com, included representatives from Verizon, Comcast, AOL (which is owned by Time Warner, as is CNN.com), Microsoft, Google and the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association, the sources told CNN. Companies involved refused to comment on the meeting.
The original request for the record retention came as part of the Justice Department's efforts to fight child pornography. During a speech last month, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he would press the CEOs of Internet service providers about retaining records.
During last week's meeting, though, the FBI "made clear they wanted [information on subscribers] for other reasons as well. ... Terrorism was mentioned," one of the sources said.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to secretly monitoring e-mail and phone calls to track people linked to terrorist activity.
Earlier this month USA Today reported three telecommunications giants provided the NSA, the nation's super secret spy agency, with records from billions of domestic phone calls after 9/11.
Another meeting of government and industry representatives is scheduled for Friday, according to an official of the Internet Service Provider Association.
Government Policy on Internet Tracking
While it's not efficient to try to track a person's Web activities with cookies, it's still a concern for privacy advocates. A government Web page could hire a corporation like DoubleClick to provide Internet cookies. In theory, DoubleClick could search its database to see if the visitor had been to any other Web site that also used DoubleClick cookies. The government could try to gather information about a user by cross-referencing all the DoubleClick cookie sites he or she visits.
Senate Internet Privacy Bill hearing
Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images
Sens. George Allen and Ernest F. Hollings discuss Internet privacy bills at a Senate Commerce meeting.
Some Internet privacy advocates don't like the idea of a governmental agency keeping information files about Web site visitors. Whether the government intends to use that information for tracking purposes is beside the point. The advocates argue that the government shouldn't keep tabs on people using cookies at all.
It may come as a surprise to conspiracy theorists, but the government more or less agrees with this perspective. In 2003, the White House's Office of Management and Budget issued a memo regarding the federal government's Internet privacy policies. The memo said that all federal government sites must post their privacy policies on an easily accessible Web page. The memo also forbids the use of persistent cookies in most cases. These are Internet cookies that remain on your hard drive even after you close your browser program [source: Office of Management and Budget].
There are some exceptions to the rule. The memo says that a federal government Web site can use persistent cookies if:
* There is a "compelling need," although the memo doesn't define what makes a need compelling
* The agency provides a clear posting in the privacy policy that alerts the user that the site has persistent cookies
* The agency explains in the privacy policy how the information in the cookie will be used
Cookies that expire once the user closes his or her browser program are exempt from these rules. Web bugs, which are images one pixel wide by one pixel tall that have many of the same properties as persistent Internet cookies, are not explicitly addressed, meaning some agencies may consider them exempt.
Despite this memo, several people have reported the use of persistent cookies on governmental Web sites. For example, the New York Times reported in 2005 that the National Security Agency (NSA) used persistent Internet cookies on its Web site that wouldn't expire until 2035. An NSA spokesperson said that the inclusion of the persistent cookies was an accident caused by a software upgrade [source: New York Times].
Many of the exposé reports about government Web sites and persistent cookies seem to be due to such accidents. Some Web page development software includes persistent cookies as a standard option. If the Web administrator doesn't know about the option, he or she might create a Web page that includes persistent cookies without being aware of it. Considering the amount of work necessary to track someone using cookies, it's likely that most of these incidents are, in fact, accidents.
To learn more about tracking activities on the Internet and related topics, follow the links on the next page
Government proposes email and internet tracking 9:01AM, Wednesday 13th August 2008
The Government will store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day" as details of every text, email and browsing session in the UK are recorded under new proposals published yesterday.
The information will be made available to police forces in order to crack down on serious crime, but will also be accessible by local councils, health authorities and even Ofsted and the Post Office.
One example of crime prevention using the data given in the consultation document is that of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency, which targets sexual abuse of children.
"The vast majority of CEOP's work is by resolution of IP addresses, e-mail addresses and increasingly mobile phone numbers.
ADVERTISEMENT
During the period March to June 2008 CEOP identified 96 suspects (who have been arrested) and safeguarded 30 children through the use of internet related data," explains the consultation document, which goes on to explain that petty crime and even instances of self harm will be tackled using the new measures.
Another example was given in which a UK citizen had been talking in an internet chatroom about self-harming, when local police tracked down his address via his IP number and ISP and intervened to save him.
However, the information will also be made available to local councils, health authorities and other Government bodies such as Ofsted.
"The main reason for it is to assist in the investigation of crime," says a Home Office spokesperson. "Each local council can make a decision for themselves on what is the most interest to them."
The move has attracted criticism from the Conservatives, however, including Dominic Grieve, the Shadow Home Secretary.
"Yet again the Government has proved itself unable to resist the temptation to take a power quite properly designed to combat terrorism to snoop on the lives of ordinary people in everyday circumstances."WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The attorney general and the FBI director have asked the nation's leading Internet service companies to keep a variety of customer information and other data for two years, much longer than the companies do now, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
Companies have varying policies regarding what information is kept and for how long.
One thing the Justice Department wants is some type of subscriber information, such as the Internet address assigned to a person when logging on to a service provider, according to two sources familiar with a meeting that was held last week between the government and the Internet companies.
The online industry is expected to strongly oppose any request to retain these types of records because of privacy concerns for their customers.
"It is a slippery slope," one of the sources said of the government's interest in the information. "It becomes a fishing expedition."
The Internet companies have said there are other ways to get the information without them having to hand it over and believe requests like this are burden to the industry, the sources said.
Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said government and private industry officials are continuing to discuss the privacy issues involved and some of the concerns raised by the companies at the meeting Friday at the Justice Department.
The meeting, first reported by CNET News.com, included representatives from Verizon, Comcast, AOL (which is owned by Time Warner, as is CNN.com), Microsoft, Google and the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association, the sources told CNN. Companies involved refused to comment on the meeting.
The original request for the record retention came as part of the Justice Department's efforts to fight child pornography. During a speech last month, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he would press the CEOs of Internet service providers about retaining records.
During last week's meeting, though, the FBI "made clear they wanted [information on subscribers] for other reasons as well. ... Terrorism was mentioned," one of the sources said.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to secretly monitoring e-mail and phone calls to track people linked to terrorist activity.
Earlier this month USA Today reported three telecommunications giants provided the NSA, the nation's super secret spy agency, with records from billions of domestic phone calls after 9/11.
Another meeting of government and industry representatives is scheduled for Friday, according to an official of the Internet Service Provider Association.
Government Policy on Internet Tracking
While it's not efficient to try to track a person's Web activities with cookies, it's still a concern for privacy advocates. A government Web page could hire a corporation like DoubleClick to provide Internet cookies. In theory, DoubleClick could search its database to see if the visitor had been to any other Web site that also used DoubleClick cookies. The government could try to gather information about a user by cross-referencing all the DoubleClick cookie sites he or she visits.
Senate Internet Privacy Bill hearing
Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images
Sens. George Allen and Ernest F. Hollings discuss Internet privacy bills at a Senate Commerce meeting.
Some Internet privacy advocates don't like the idea of a governmental agency keeping information files about Web site visitors. Whether the government intends to use that information for tracking purposes is beside the point. The advocates argue that the government shouldn't keep tabs on people using cookies at all.
It may come as a surprise to conspiracy theorists, but the government more or less agrees with this perspective. In 2003, the White House's Office of Management and Budget issued a memo regarding the federal government's Internet privacy policies. The memo said that all federal government sites must post their privacy policies on an easily accessible Web page. The memo also forbids the use of persistent cookies in most cases. These are Internet cookies that remain on your hard drive even after you close your browser program [source: Office of Management and Budget].
There are some exceptions to the rule. The memo says that a federal government Web site can use persistent cookies if:
* There is a "compelling need," although the memo doesn't define what makes a need compelling
* The agency provides a clear posting in the privacy policy that alerts the user that the site has persistent cookies
* The agency explains in the privacy policy how the information in the cookie will be used
Cookies that expire once the user closes his or her browser program are exempt from these rules. Web bugs, which are images one pixel wide by one pixel tall that have many of the same properties as persistent Internet cookies, are not explicitly addressed, meaning some agencies may consider them exempt.
Despite this memo, several people have reported the use of persistent cookies on governmental Web sites. For example, the New York Times reported in 2005 that the National Security Agency (NSA) used persistent Internet cookies on its Web site that wouldn't expire until 2035. An NSA spokesperson said that the inclusion of the persistent cookies was an accident caused by a software upgrade [source: New York Times].
Many of the exposé reports about government Web sites and persistent cookies seem to be due to such accidents. Some Web page development software includes persistent cookies as a standard option. If the Web administrator doesn't know about the option, he or she might create a Web page that includes persistent cookies without being aware of it. Considering the amount of work necessary to track someone using cookies, it's likely that most of these incidents are, in fact, accidents.
To learn more about tracking activities on the Internet and related topics, follow the links on the next page
Government proposes email and internet tracking 9:01AM, Wednesday 13th August 2008
The Government will store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day" as details of every text, email and browsing session in the UK are recorded under new proposals published yesterday.
The information will be made available to police forces in order to crack down on serious crime, but will also be accessible by local councils, health authorities and even Ofsted and the Post Office.
One example of crime prevention using the data given in the consultation document is that of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency, which targets sexual abuse of children.
"The vast majority of CEOP's work is by resolution of IP addresses, e-mail addresses and increasingly mobile phone numbers.
ADVERTISEMENT
During the period March to June 2008 CEOP identified 96 suspects (who have been arrested) and safeguarded 30 children through the use of internet related data," explains the consultation document, which goes on to explain that petty crime and even instances of self harm will be tackled using the new measures.
Another example was given in which a UK citizen had been talking in an internet chatroom about self-harming, when local police tracked down his address via his IP number and ISP and intervened to save him.
However, the information will also be made available to local councils, health authorities and other Government bodies such as Ofsted.
"The main reason for it is to assist in the investigation of crime," says a Home Office spokesperson. "Each local council can make a decision for themselves on what is the most interest to them."
The move has attracted criticism from the Conservatives, however, including Dominic Grieve, the Shadow Home Secretary.
"Yet again the Government has proved itself unable to resist the temptation to take a power quite properly designed to combat terrorism to snoop on the lives of ordinary people in everyday circumstances."
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| Diamonds wrote: | IT IS GOVERNMENT TRACKED AND TRACKS IF YOU WATCH PORN UNDERAGE, AND IF YOU TORRENT.
PROOF:
| Code: | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The attorney general and the FBI director have asked the nation's leading Internet service companies to keep a variety of customer information and other data for two years, much longer than the companies do now, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
Companies have varying policies regarding what information is kept and for how long.
One thing the Justice Department wants is some type of subscriber information, such as the Internet address assigned to a person when logging on to a service provider, according to two sources familiar with a meeting that was held last week between the government and the Internet companies.
The online industry is expected to strongly oppose any request to retain these types of records because of privacy concerns for their customers.
"It is a slippery slope," one of the sources said of the government's interest in the information. "It becomes a fishing expedition."
The Internet companies have said there are other ways to get the information without them having to hand it over and believe requests like this are burden to the industry, the sources said.
Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said government and private industry officials are continuing to discuss the privacy issues involved and some of the concerns raised by the companies at the meeting Friday at the Justice Department.
The meeting, first reported by CNET News.com, included representatives from Verizon, Comcast, AOL (which is owned by Time Warner, as is CNN.com), Microsoft, Google and the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association, the sources told CNN. Companies involved refused to comment on the meeting.
The original request for the record retention came as part of the Justice Department's efforts to fight child pornography. During a speech last month, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he would press the CEOs of Internet service providers about retaining records.
During last week's meeting, though, the FBI "made clear they wanted [information on subscribers] for other reasons as well. ... Terrorism was mentioned," one of the sources said.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to secretly monitoring e-mail and phone calls to track people linked to terrorist activity.
Earlier this month USA Today reported three telecommunications giants provided the NSA, the nation's super secret spy agency, with records from billions of domestic phone calls after 9/11.
Another meeting of government and industry representatives is scheduled for Friday, according to an official of the Internet Service Provider Association.
Government Policy on Internet Tracking
While it's not efficient to try to track a person's Web activities with cookies, it's still a concern for privacy advocates. A government Web page could hire a corporation like DoubleClick to provide Internet cookies. In theory, DoubleClick could search its database to see if the visitor had been to any other Web site that also used DoubleClick cookies. The government could try to gather information about a user by cross-referencing all the DoubleClick cookie sites he or she visits.
Senate Internet Privacy Bill hearing
Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images
Sens. George Allen and Ernest F. Hollings discuss Internet privacy bills at a Senate Commerce meeting.
Some Internet privacy advocates don't like the idea of a governmental agency keeping information files about Web site visitors. Whether the government intends to use that information for tracking purposes is beside the point. The advocates argue that the government shouldn't keep tabs on people using cookies at all.
It may come as a surprise to conspiracy theorists, but the government more or less agrees with this perspective. In 2003, the White House's Office of Management and Budget issued a memo regarding the federal government's Internet privacy policies. The memo said that all federal government sites must post their privacy policies on an easily accessible Web page. The memo also forbids the use of persistent cookies in most cases. These are Internet cookies that remain on your hard drive even after you close your browser program [source: Office of Management and Budget].
There are some exceptions to the rule. The memo says that a federal government Web site can use persistent cookies if:
* There is a "compelling need," although the memo doesn't define what makes a need compelling
* The agency provides a clear posting in the privacy policy that alerts the user that the site has persistent cookies
* The agency explains in the privacy policy how the information in the cookie will be used
Cookies that expire once the user closes his or her browser program are exempt from these rules. Web bugs, which are images one pixel wide by one pixel tall that have many of the same properties as persistent Internet cookies, are not explicitly addressed, meaning some agencies may consider them exempt.
Despite this memo, several people have reported the use of persistent cookies on governmental Web sites. For example, the New York Times reported in 2005 that the National Security Agency (NSA) used persistent Internet cookies on its Web site that wouldn't expire until 2035. An NSA spokesperson said that the inclusion of the persistent cookies was an accident caused by a software upgrade [source: New York Times].
Many of the exposé reports about government Web sites and persistent cookies seem to be due to such accidents. Some Web page development software includes persistent cookies as a standard option. If the Web administrator doesn't know about the option, he or she might create a Web page that includes persistent cookies without being aware of it. Considering the amount of work necessary to track someone using cookies, it's likely that most of these incidents are, in fact, accidents.
To learn more about tracking activities on the Internet and related topics, follow the links on the next page
Government proposes email and internet tracking 9:01AM, Wednesday 13th August 2008
The Government will store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day" as details of every text, email and browsing session in the UK are recorded under new proposals published yesterday.
The information will be made available to police forces in order to crack down on serious crime, but will also be accessible by local councils, health authorities and even Ofsted and the Post Office.
One example of crime prevention using the data given in the consultation document is that of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency, which targets sexual abuse of children.
"The vast majority of CEOP's work is by resolution of IP addresses, e-mail addresses and increasingly mobile phone numbers.
ADVERTISEMENT
During the period March to June 2008 CEOP identified 96 suspects (who have been arrested) and safeguarded 30 children through the use of internet related data," explains the consultation document, which goes on to explain that petty crime and even instances of self harm will be tackled using the new measures.
Another example was given in which a UK citizen had been talking in an internet chatroom about self-harming, when local police tracked down his address via his IP number and ISP and intervened to save him.
However, the information will also be made available to local councils, health authorities and other Government bodies such as Ofsted.
"The main reason for it is to assist in the investigation of crime," says a Home Office spokesperson. "Each local council can make a decision for themselves on what is the most interest to them."
The move has attracted criticism from the Conservatives, however, including Dominic Grieve, the Shadow Home Secretary.
"Yet again the Government has proved itself unable to resist the temptation to take a power quite properly designed to combat terrorism to snoop on the lives of ordinary people in everyday circumstances."WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The attorney general and the FBI director have asked the nation's leading Internet service companies to keep a variety of customer information and other data for two years, much longer than the companies do now, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
Companies have varying policies regarding what information is kept and for how long.
One thing the Justice Department wants is some type of subscriber information, such as the Internet address assigned to a person when logging on to a service provider, according to two sources familiar with a meeting that was held last week between the government and the Internet companies.
The online industry is expected to strongly oppose any request to retain these types of records because of privacy concerns for their customers.
"It is a slippery slope," one of the sources said of the government's interest in the information. "It becomes a fishing expedition."
The Internet companies have said there are other ways to get the information without them having to hand it over and believe requests like this are burden to the industry, the sources said.
Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said government and private industry officials are continuing to discuss the privacy issues involved and some of the concerns raised by the companies at the meeting Friday at the Justice Department.
The meeting, first reported by CNET News.com, included representatives from Verizon, Comcast, AOL (which is owned by Time Warner, as is CNN.com), Microsoft, Google and the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association, the sources told CNN. Companies involved refused to comment on the meeting.
The original request for the record retention came as part of the Justice Department's efforts to fight child pornography. During a speech last month, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he would press the CEOs of Internet service providers about retaining records.
During last week's meeting, though, the FBI "made clear they wanted [information on subscribers] for other reasons as well. ... Terrorism was mentioned," one of the sources said.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to secretly monitoring e-mail and phone calls to track people linked to terrorist activity.
Earlier this month USA Today reported three telecommunications giants provided the NSA, the nation's super secret spy agency, with records from billions of domestic phone calls after 9/11.
Another meeting of government and industry representatives is scheduled for Friday, according to an official of the Internet Service Provider Association.
Government Policy on Internet Tracking
While it's not efficient to try to track a person's Web activities with cookies, it's still a concern for privacy advocates. A government Web page could hire a corporation like DoubleClick to provide Internet cookies. In theory, DoubleClick could search its database to see if the visitor had been to any other Web site that also used DoubleClick cookies. The government could try to gather information about a user by cross-referencing all the DoubleClick cookie sites he or she visits.
Senate Internet Privacy Bill hearing
Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images
Sens. George Allen and Ernest F. Hollings discuss Internet privacy bills at a Senate Commerce meeting.
Some Internet privacy advocates don't like the idea of a governmental agency keeping information files about Web site visitors. Whether the government intends to use that information for tracking purposes is beside the point. The advocates argue that the government shouldn't keep tabs on people using cookies at all.
It may come as a surprise to conspiracy theorists, but the government more or less agrees with this perspective. In 2003, the White House's Office of Management and Budget issued a memo regarding the federal government's Internet privacy policies. The memo said that all federal government sites must post their privacy policies on an easily accessible Web page. The memo also forbids the use of persistent cookies in most cases. These are Internet cookies that remain on your hard drive even after you close your browser program [source: Office of Management and Budget].
There are some exceptions to the rule. The memo says that a federal government Web site can use persistent cookies if:
* There is a "compelling need," although the memo doesn't define what makes a need compelling
* The agency provides a clear posting in the privacy policy that alerts the user that the site has persistent cookies
* The agency explains in the privacy policy how the information in the cookie will be used
Cookies that expire once the user closes his or her browser program are exempt from these rules. Web bugs, which are images one pixel wide by one pixel tall that have many of the same properties as persistent Internet cookies, are not explicitly addressed, meaning some agencies may consider them exempt.
Despite this memo, several people have reported the use of persistent cookies on governmental Web sites. For example, the New York Times reported in 2005 that the National Security Agency (NSA) used persistent Internet cookies on its Web site that wouldn't expire until 2035. An NSA spokesperson said that the inclusion of the persistent cookies was an accident caused by a software upgrade [source: New York Times].
Many of the exposé reports about government Web sites and persistent cookies seem to be due to such accidents. Some Web page development software includes persistent cookies as a standard option. If the Web administrator doesn't know about the option, he or she might create a Web page that includes persistent cookies without being aware of it. Considering the amount of work necessary to track someone using cookies, it's likely that most of these incidents are, in fact, accidents.
To learn more about tracking activities on the Internet and related topics, follow the links on the next page
Government proposes email and internet tracking 9:01AM, Wednesday 13th August 2008
The Government will store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day" as details of every text, email and browsing session in the UK are recorded under new proposals published yesterday.
The information will be made available to police forces in order to crack down on serious crime, but will also be accessible by local councils, health authorities and even Ofsted and the Post Office.
One example of crime prevention using the data given in the consultation document is that of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency, which targets sexual abuse of children.
"The vast majority of CEOP's work is by resolution of IP addresses, e-mail addresses and increasingly mobile phone numbers.
ADVERTISEMENT
During the period March to June 2008 CEOP identified 96 suspects (who have been arrested) and safeguarded 30 children through the use of internet related data," explains the consultation document, which goes on to explain that petty crime and even instances of self harm will be tackled using the new measures.
Another example was given in which a UK citizen had been talking in an internet chatroom about self-harming, when local police tracked down his address via his IP number and ISP and intervened to save him.
However, the information will also be made available to local councils, health authorities and other Government bodies such as Ofsted.
"The main reason for it is to assist in the investigation of crime," says a Home Office spokesperson. "Each local council can make a decision for themselves on what is the most interest to them."
The move has attracted criticism from the Conservatives, however, including Dominic Grieve, the Shadow Home Secretary.
"Yet again the Government has proved itself unable to resist the temptation to take a power quite properly designed to combat terrorism to snoop on the lives of ordinary people in everyday circumstances."
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PROOF:
| Code: | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The attorney general and the FBI director have asked the nation's leading Internet service companies to keep a variety of customer information and other data for two years, much longer than the companies do now, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
Companies have varying policies regarding what information is kept and for how long.
One thing the Justice Department wants is some type of subscriber information, such as the Internet address assigned to a person when logging on to a service provider, according to two sources familiar with a meeting that was held last week between the government and the Internet companies.
The online industry is expected to strongly oppose any request to retain these types of records because of privacy concerns for their customers.
"It is a slippery slope," one of the sources said of the government's interest in the information. "It becomes a fishing expedition."
The Internet companies have said there are other ways to get the information without them having to hand it over and believe requests like this are burden to the industry, the sources said.
Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said government and private industry officials are continuing to discuss the privacy issues involved and some of the concerns raised by the companies at the meeting Friday at the Justice Department.
The meeting, first reported by CNET News.com, included representatives from Verizon, Comcast, AOL (which is owned by Time Warner, as is CNN.com), Microsoft, Google and the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association, the sources told CNN. Companies involved refused to comment on the meeting.
The original request for the record retention came as part of the Justice Department's efforts to fight child pornography. During a speech last month, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he would press the CEOs of Internet service providers about retaining records.
During last week's meeting, though, the FBI "made clear they wanted [information on subscribers] for other reasons as well. ... Terrorism was mentioned," one of the sources said.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to secretly monitoring e-mail and phone calls to track people linked to terrorist activity.
Earlier this month USA Today reported three telecommunications giants provided the NSA, the nation's super secret spy agency, with records from billions of domestic phone calls after 9/11.
Another meeting of government and industry representatives is scheduled for Friday, according to an official of the Internet Service Provider Association.
Government Policy on Internet Tracking
While it's not efficient to try to track a person's Web activities with cookies, it's still a concern for privacy advocates. A government Web page could hire a corporation like DoubleClick to provide Internet cookies. In theory, DoubleClick could search its database to see if the visitor had been to any other Web site that also used DoubleClick cookies. The government could try to gather information about a user by cross-referencing all the DoubleClick cookie sites he or she visits.
Senate Internet Privacy Bill hearing
Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images
Sens. George Allen and Ernest F. Hollings discuss Internet privacy bills at a Senate Commerce meeting.
Some Internet privacy advocates don't like the idea of a governmental agency keeping information files about Web site visitors. Whether the government intends to use that information for tracking purposes is beside the point. The advocates argue that the government shouldn't keep tabs on people using cookies at all.
It may come as a surprise to conspiracy theorists, but the government more or less agrees with this perspective. In 2003, the White House's Office of Management and Budget issued a memo regarding the federal government's Internet privacy policies. The memo said that all federal government sites must post their privacy policies on an easily accessible Web page. The memo also forbids the use of persistent cookies in most cases. These are Internet cookies that remain on your hard drive even after you close your browser program [source: Office of Management and Budget].
There are some exceptions to the rule. The memo says that a federal government Web site can use persistent cookies if:
* There is a "compelling need," although the memo doesn't define what makes a need compelling
* The agency provides a clear posting in the privacy policy that alerts the user that the site has persistent cookies
* The agency explains in the privacy policy how the information in the cookie will be used
Cookies that expire once the user closes his or her browser program are exempt from these rules. Web bugs, which are images one pixel wide by one pixel tall that have many of the same properties as persistent Internet cookies, are not explicitly addressed, meaning some agencies may consider them exempt.
Despite this memo, several people have reported the use of persistent cookies on governmental Web sites. For example, the New York Times reported in 2005 that the National Security Agency (NSA) used persistent Internet cookies on its Web site that wouldn't expire until 2035. An NSA spokesperson said that the inclusion of the persistent cookies was an accident caused by a software upgrade [source: New York Times].
Many of the exposé reports about government Web sites and persistent cookies seem to be due to such accidents. Some Web page development software includes persistent cookies as a standard option. If the Web administrator doesn't know about the option, he or she might create a Web page that includes persistent cookies without being aware of it. Considering the amount of work necessary to track someone using cookies, it's likely that most of these incidents are, in fact, accidents.
To learn more about tracking activities on the Internet and related topics, follow the links on the next page
Government proposes email and internet tracking 9:01AM, Wednesday 13th August 2008
The Government will store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day" as details of every text, email and browsing session in the UK are recorded under new proposals published yesterday.
The information will be made available to police forces in order to crack down on serious crime, but will also be accessible by local councils, health authorities and even Ofsted and the Post Office.
One example of crime prevention using the data given in the consultation document is that of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency, which targets sexual abuse of children.
"The vast majority of CEOP's work is by resolution of IP addresses, e-mail addresses and increasingly mobile phone numbers.
ADVERTISEMENT
During the period March to June 2008 CEOP identified 96 suspects (who have been arrested) and safeguarded 30 children through the use of internet related data," explains the consultation document, which goes on to explain that petty crime and even instances of self harm will be tackled using the new measures.
Another example was given in which a UK citizen had been talking in an internet chatroom about self-harming, when local police tracked down his address via his IP number and ISP and intervened to save him.
However, the information will also be made available to local councils, health authorities and other Government bodies such as Ofsted.
"The main reason for it is to assist in the investigation of crime," says a Home Office spokesperson. "Each local council can make a decision for themselves on what is the most interest to them."
The move has attracted criticism from the Conservatives, however, including Dominic Grieve, the Shadow Home Secretary.
"Yet again the Government has proved itself unable to resist the temptation to take a power quite properly designed to combat terrorism to snoop on the lives of ordinary people in everyday circumstances."WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The attorney general and the FBI director have asked the nation's leading Internet service companies to keep a variety of customer information and other data for two years, much longer than the companies do now, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
Companies have varying policies regarding what information is kept and for how long.
One thing the Justice Department wants is some type of subscriber information, such as the Internet address assigned to a person when logging on to a service provider, according to two sources familiar with a meeting that was held last week between the government and the Internet companies.
The online industry is expected to strongly oppose any request to retain these types of records because of privacy concerns for their customers.
"It is a slippery slope," one of the sources said of the government's interest in the information. "It becomes a fishing expedition."
The Internet companies have said there are other ways to get the information without them having to hand it over and believe requests like this are burden to the industry, the sources said.
Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said government and private industry officials are continuing to discuss the privacy issues involved and some of the concerns raised by the companies at the meeting Friday at the Justice Department.
The meeting, first reported by CNET News.com, included representatives from Verizon, Comcast, AOL (which is owned by Time Warner, as is CNN.com), Microsoft, Google and the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association, the sources told CNN. Companies involved refused to comment on the meeting.
The original request for the record retention came as part of the Justice Department's efforts to fight child pornography. During a speech last month, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he would press the CEOs of Internet service providers about retaining records.
During last week's meeting, though, the FBI "made clear they wanted [information on subscribers] for other reasons as well. ... Terrorism was mentioned," one of the sources said.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to secretly monitoring e-mail and phone calls to track people linked to terrorist activity.
Earlier this month USA Today reported three telecommunications giants provided the NSA, the nation's super secret spy agency, with records from billions of domestic phone calls after 9/11.
Another meeting of government and industry representatives is scheduled for Friday, according to an official of the Internet Service Provider Association.
Government Policy on Internet Tracking
While it's not efficient to try to track a person's Web activities with cookies, it's still a concern for privacy advocates. A government Web page could hire a corporation like DoubleClick to provide Internet cookies. In theory, DoubleClick could search its database to see if the visitor had been to any other Web site that also used DoubleClick cookies. The government could try to gather information about a user by cross-referencing all the DoubleClick cookie sites he or she visits.
Senate Internet Privacy Bill hearing
Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images
Sens. George Allen and Ernest F. Hollings discuss Internet privacy bills at a Senate Commerce meeting.
Some Internet privacy advocates don't like the idea of a governmental agency keeping information files about Web site visitors. Whether the government intends to use that information for tracking purposes is beside the point. The advocates argue that the government shouldn't keep tabs on people using cookies at all.
It may come as a surprise to conspiracy theorists, but the government more or less agrees with this perspective. In 2003, the White House's Office of Management and Budget issued a memo regarding the federal government's Internet privacy policies. The memo said that all federal government sites must post their privacy policies on an easily accessible Web page. The memo also forbids the use of persistent cookies in most cases. These are Internet cookies that remain on your hard drive even after you close your browser program [source: Office of Management and Budget].
There are some exceptions to the rule. The memo says that a federal government Web site can use persistent cookies if:
* There is a "compelling need," although the memo doesn't define what makes a need compelling
* The agency provides a clear posting in the privacy policy that alerts the user that the site has persistent cookies
* The agency explains in the privacy policy how the information in the cookie will be used
Cookies that expire once the user closes his or her browser program are exempt from these rules. Web bugs, which are images one pixel wide by one pixel tall that have many of the same properties as persistent Internet cookies, are not explicitly addressed, meaning some agencies may consider them exempt.
Despite this memo, several people have reported the use of persistent cookies on governmental Web sites. For example, the New York Times reported in 2005 that the National Security Agency (NSA) used persistent Internet cookies on its Web site that wouldn't expire until 2035. An NSA spokesperson said that the inclusion of the persistent cookies was an accident caused by a software upgrade [source: New York Times].
Many of the exposé reports about government Web sites and persistent cookies seem to be due to such accidents. Some Web page development software includes persistent cookies as a standard option. If the Web administrator doesn't know about the option, he or she might create a Web page that includes persistent cookies without being aware of it. Considering the amount of work necessary to track someone using cookies, it's likely that most of these incidents are, in fact, accidents.
To learn more about tracking activities on the Internet and related topics, follow the links on the next page
Government proposes email and internet tracking 9:01AM, Wednesday 13th August 2008
The Government will store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day" as details of every text, email and browsing session in the UK are recorded under new proposals published yesterday.
The information will be made available to police forces in order to crack down on serious crime, but will also be accessible by local councils, health authorities and even Ofsted and the Post Office.
One example of crime prevention using the data given in the consultation document is that of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency, which targets sexual abuse of children.
"The vast majority of CEOP's work is by resolution of IP addresses, e-mail addresses and increasingly mobile phone numbers.
ADVERTISEMENT
During the period March to June 2008 CEOP identified 96 suspects (who have been arrested) and safeguarded 30 children through the use of internet related data," explains the consultation document, which goes on to explain that petty crime and even instances of self harm will be tackled using the new measures.
Another example was given in which a UK citizen had been talking in an internet chatroom about self-harming, when local police tracked down his address via his IP number and ISP and intervened to save him.
However, the information will also be made available to local councils, health authorities and other Government bodies such as Ofsted.
"The main reason for it is to assist in the investigation of crime," says a Home Office spokesperson. "Each local council can make a decision for themselves on what is the most interest to them."
The move has attracted criticism from the Conservatives, however, including Dominic Grieve, the Shadow Home Secretary.
"Yet again the Government has proved itself unable to resist the temptation to take a power quite properly designed to combat terrorism to snoop on the lives of ordinary people in everyday circumstances."
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| Diamonds wrote: | IT IS GOVERNMENT TRACKED AND TRACKS IF YOU WATCH PORN UNDERAGE, AND IF YOU TORRENT.
PROOF:
[code:1:8dd1ff4f37]WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The attorney general and the FBI director have asked the nation's leading Internet service companies to keep a variety of customer information and other data for two years, much longer than the companies do now, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
Companies have varying policies regarding what information is kept and for how long.
One thing the Justice Department wants is some type of subscriber information, such as the Internet address assigned to a person when logging on to a service provider, according to two sources familiar with a meeting that was held last week between the government and the Internet companies.
The online industry is expected to strongly oppose any request to retain these types of records because of privacy concerns for their customers.
"It is a slippery slope," one of the sources said of the government's interest in the information. "It becomes a fishing expedition."
The Internet companies have said there are other ways to get the information without them having to hand it over and believe requests like this are burden to the industry, the sources said.
Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said government and private industry officials are continuing to discuss the privacy issues involved and some of the concerns raised by the companies at the meeting Friday at the Justice Department.
The meeting, first reported by CNET News.com, included representatives from Verizon, Comcast, AOL (which is owned by Time Warner, as is CNN.com), Microsoft, Google and the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association, the sources told CNN. Companies involved refused to comment on the meeting.
The original request for the record retention came as part of the Justice Department's efforts to fight child pornography. During a speech last month, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he would press the CEOs of Internet service providers about retaining records.
During last week's meeting, though, the FBI "made clear they wanted [information on subscribers] for other reasons as well. ... Terrorism was mentioned," one of the sources said.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to secretly monitoring e-mail and phone calls to track people linked to terrorist activity.
Earlier this month USA Today reported three telecommunications giants provided the NSA, the nation's super secret spy agency, with records from billions of domestic phone calls after 9/11.
Another meeting of government and industry representatives is scheduled for Friday, according to an official of the Internet Service Provider Association.
Government Policy on Internet Tracking
While it's not efficient to try to track a person's Web activities with cookies, it's still a concern for privacy advocates. A government Web page could hire a corporation like DoubleClick to provide Internet cookies. In theory, DoubleClick could search its database to see if the visitor had been to any other Web site that also used DoubleClick cookies. The government could try to gather information about a user by cross-referencing all the DoubleClick cookie sites he or she visits.
Senate Internet Privacy Bill hearing
Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images
Sens. George Allen and Ernest F. Hollings discuss Internet privacy bills at a Senate Commerce meeting.
Some Internet privacy advocates don't like the idea of a governmental agency keeping information files about Web site visitors. Whether the government intends to use that information for tracking purposes is beside the point. The advocates argue that the government shouldn't keep tabs on people using cookies at all.
It may come as a surprise to conspiracy theorists, but the government more or less agrees with this perspective. In 2003, the White House's Office of Management and Budget issued a memo regarding the federal government's Internet privacy policies. The memo said that all federal government sites must post their privacy policies on an easily accessible Web page. The memo also forbids the use of persistent cookies in most cases. These are Internet cookies that remain on your hard drive even after you close your browser program [source: Office of Management and Budget].
There are some exceptions to the rule. The memo says that a federal government Web site can use persistent cookies if:
* There is a "compelling need," although the memo doesn't define what makes a need compelling
* The agency provides a clear posting in the privacy policy that alerts the user that the site has persistent cookies
* The agency explains in the privacy policy how the information in the cookie will be used
Cookies that expire once the user closes his or her browser program are exempt from these rules. Web bugs, which are images one pixel wide by one pixel tall that have many of the same properties as persistent Internet cookies, are not explicitly addressed, meaning some agencies may consider them exempt.
Despite this memo, several people have reported the use of persistent cookies on governmental Web sites. For example, the New York Times reported in 2005 that the National Security Agency (NSA) used persistent Internet cookies on its Web site that wouldn't expire until 2035. An NSA spokesperson said that the inclusion of the persistent cookies was an accident caused by a software upgrade [source: New York Times].
Many of the exposé reports about government Web sites and persistent cookies seem to be due to such accidents. Some Web page development software includes persistent cookies as a standard option. If the Web administrator doesn't know about the option, he or she might create a Web page that includes persistent cookies without being aware of it. Considering the amount of work necessary to track someone using cookies, it's likely that most of these incidents are, in fact, accidents.
To learn more about tracking activities on the Internet and related topics, follow the links on the next page
Government proposes email and internet tracking 9:01AM, Wednesday 13th August 2008
The Government will store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day" as details of every text, email and browsing session in the UK are recorded under new proposals published yesterday.
The information will be made available to police forces in order to crack down on serious crime, but will also be accessible by local councils, health authorities and even Ofsted and the Post Office.
One example of crime prevention using the data given in the consultation document is that of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency, which targets sexual abuse of children.
"The vast majority of CEOP's work is by resolution of IP addresses, e-mail addresses and increasingly mobile phone numbers.
ADVERTISEMENT
During the period March to June 2008 CEOP identified 96 suspects (who have been arrested) and safeguarded 30 children through the use of internet related data," explains the consultation document, which goes on to explain that petty crime and even instances of self harm will be tackled using the new measures.
Another example was given in which a UK citizen had been talking in an internet chatroom about self-harming, when local police tracked down his address via his IP number and ISP and intervened to save him.
However, the information will also be made available to local councils, health authorities and other Government bodies such as Ofsted.
"The main reason for it is to assist in the investigation of crime," says a Home Office spokesperson. "Each local council can make a decision for themselves on what is the most interest to them."
The move has attracted criticism from the Conservatives, however, including Dominic Grieve, the Shadow Home Secretary.
"Yet again the Government has proved itself unable to resist the temptation to take a power quite properly designed to combat terrorism to snoop on the lives of ordinary people in everyday circumstances."WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The attorney general and the FBI director have asked the nation's leading Internet service companies to keep a variety of customer information and other data for two years, much longer than the companies do now, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
Companies have varying policies regarding what information is kept and for how long.
One thing the Justice Department wants is some type of subscriber information, such as the Internet address assigned to a person when logging on to a service provider, according to two sources familiar with a meeting that was held last week between the government and the Internet companies.
The online industry is expected to strongly oppose any request to retain these types of records because of privacy concerns for their customers.
"It is a slippery slope," one of the sources said of the government's interest in the information. "It becomes a fishing expedition."
The Internet companies have said there are other ways to get the information without them having to hand it over and believe requests like this are burden to the industry, the sources said.
Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said government and private industry officials are continuing to discuss the privacy issues involved and some of the concerns raised by the companies at the meeting Friday at the Justice Department.
The meeting, first reported by CNET News.com, included representatives from Verizon, Comcast, AOL (which is owned by Time Warner, as is CNN.com), Microsoft, Google and the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association, the sources told CNN. Companies involved refused to comment on the meeting.
The original request for the record retention came as part of the Justice Department's efforts to fight child pornography. During a speech last month, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he would press the CEOs of Internet service providers about retaining records.
During last week's meeting, though, the FBI "made clear they wanted [information on subscribers] for other reasons as well. ... Terrorism was mentioned," one of the sources said.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to secretly monitoring e-mail and phone calls to track people linked to terrorist activity.
Earlier this month USA Today reported three telecommunications giants provided the NSA, the nation's super secret spy agency, with records from billions of domestic phone calls after 9/11.
Another meeting of government and industry representatives is scheduled for Friday, according to an official of the Internet Service Provider Association.
Government Policy on Internet Tracking
While it's not efficient to try to track a person's Web activities with cookies, it's still a concern for privacy advocates. A government Web page could hire a corporation like DoubleClick to provide Internet cookies. In theory, DoubleClick could search its database to see if the visitor had been to any other Web site that also used DoubleClick cookies. The government could try to gather information about a user by cross-referencing all the DoubleClick cookie sites he or she visits.
Senate Internet Privacy Bill hearing
Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images
Sens. George Allen and Ernest F. Hollings discuss Internet privacy bills at a Senate Commerce meeting.
Some Internet privacy advocates don't like the idea of a governmental agency keeping information files about Web site visitors. Whether the government intends to use that information for tracking purposes is beside the point. The advocates argue that the government shouldn't keep tabs on people using cookies at all.
It may come as a surprise to conspiracy theorists, but the government more or less agrees with this perspective. In 2003, the White House's Office of Management and Budget issued a memo regarding the federal government's Internet privacy policies. The memo said that all federal government sites must post their privacy policies on an easily accessible Web page. The memo also forbids the use of persistent cookies in most cases. These are Internet cookies that remain on your hard drive even after you close your browser program [source: Office of Management and Budget].
There are some exceptions to the rule. The memo says that a federal government Web site can use persistent cookies if:
* There is a "compelling need," although the memo doesn't define what makes a need compelling
* The agency provides a clear posting in the privacy policy that alerts the user that the site has persistent cookies
* The agency explains in the privacy policy how the information in the cookie will be used
Cookies that expire once the user closes his or her browser program are exempt from these rules. Web bugs, which are images one pixel wide by one pixel tall that have many of the same properties as persistent Internet cookies, are not explicitly addressed, meaning some agencies may consider them exempt.
Despite this memo, several people have reported the use of persistent cookies on governmental Web sites. For example, the New York Times reported in 2005 that the National Security Agency (NSA) used persistent Internet cookies on its Web site that wouldn't expire until 2035. An NSA spokesperson said that the inclusion of the persistent cookies was an accident caused by a software upgrade [source: New York Times].
Many of the exposé reports about government Web sites and persistent cookies seem to be due to such accidents. Some Web page development software includes persistent cookies as a standard option. If the Web administrator doesn't know about the option, he or she might create a Web page that includes persistent cookies without being aware of it. Considering the amount of work necessary to track someone using cookies, it's likely that most of these incidents are, in fact, accidents.
To learn more about tracking activities on the Internet and related topics, follow the links on the next page
Government proposes email and internet tracking 9:01AM, Wednesday 13th August 2008
The Government will store "a billion incidents of data exchange a day" as details of every text, email and browsing session in the UK are recorded under new proposals published yesterday.
The information will be made available to police forces in order to crack down on serious crime, but will also be accessible by local councils, health authorities and even Ofsted and the Post Office.
One example of crime prevention using the data given in the consultation document is that of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency, which targets sexual abuse of children.
"The vast majority of CEOP's work is by resolution of IP addresses, e-mail addresses and increasingly mobile phone numbers.
ADVERTISEMENT
During the period March to June 2008 CEOP identified 96 suspects (who have been arrested) and safeguarded 30 children through the use
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MystLone
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| Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| such stuff only happens to usa where the government lies so much u guys dunno wtf they do to u anymore.and throw your phone if your gonna delete smth so impt ._. they do track your calls and messages even though privacy policy dont allow.
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NINTENDO
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| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:32 am Post subject: |
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Vista wont allow it.
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