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  1. 11th June 2010, 02:12 PM #1
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    Default Govt wants ISPs to record browsing history

    http://www.zdnet.com.au/govt-wants-i...-339303785.htm

    Words fail me at how angry I am with what the Govt wants to do. They deserve to lose the election just for even considering this.
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    Rollseyes..

    Here we go
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    I could save them the trouble right now by telling them that 99.9% of all internet traffic is for porn
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    Um, invasion of privacy much?

    I'm pretty sure that the law states that police or whoever have to have "reason of suspicion" in order to even ask to look at that sort of thing.

    It'd be interesting to see which ISPs are willing to adopt this practice?, considering the storage requirement that'll be needed for the sheer number of private users, business users, schools etc. that will be generating ridiculous amounts of browsing history.
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    iiNet knew about retention proposal in 2009
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    Oh good, now the filter can make the 'net go slower and the mandatory browser history recorder can make it more expensive!

    Seriously, who does the government have advising them on this stuff? Monkeys? Sarah Palin?
    Are the nutjob far-right 'family values' groups lobbying for this kind of crap really so powerful as to get this kind of crap pushed through even though any first-year IT or Communications student can tell you how and why it won't work?
    More to the point, why don't Conroy and co put the funds into providing community education classes on safe, responsible, and effective internet use, so we cut down on child predators AND stuff like online identity fraud?
    Yeesh...
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    So they can target ads at us. Earning money is the only reason to keep that sort of data.
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    Data retention proposal “totally insane”, says Linton

    This is about the only thing Linton's said that I agree with.
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    Sky News is running a "Should ISPs be required by law to store users' web browsing history?" poll.

    You know which option to vote for.
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    would this not be in direct violation of the governments own communication laws....
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