Someone’s watching you…
Marty April 10th, 2009
There are places in the world (maybe it’s coming here too!) where the ISP’s are required to keep records of every email sent and files accessed for at least a year. Usually these records are kept for a short while in case something goes wrong the ISP can use the information to fix the situation or to prevent it from happening again. But governments are requiring saving this information and passing the info on to the government.
The excuse is to prevent child pornography, but you can bet that it will be used for other things. I’ll let you guess what these things might be.
The only thing good that might come of this is that they should be able to track spammers more easily, but this will require a lot of work to sift through the data.