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>thanks to the "patriot" act, our ISPs are storing our search history anyway. I think you're thinking of PCIPA (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Chi
by mistercow 14y ago
>thanks to the "patriot" act, our ISPs are storing our search history anyway.
I think you're thinking of PCIPA (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Children_from_Internet_Pornographers_Act_of_2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Children_from_Intern... ), which would do that, but is still a long way from becoming law. I am fairly sure that the USA PATRIOT Act does not contain any such provision.
- paulsutter 14y agoFrom the EFF, regarding the "Patriot" act: "At the very least, this change means that the government can use a pen-trap to see the email addresses of people youre sending email to and the addresses of people who send email to you, along with the timestamp and size in bytes of each email. The FBI can monitor the IP addresses of all the computers you interact with over the Internet, or capture the IP addresses of every person visiting a particular website. Under the vaguely written statute, it may even be able to capture the URL of every web page that you read, although the FBI refuses to confirm or deny whether it has done so." Sure, I should have inserted the word [can], but it hardly changes the point. Given the direction laws have taken since 9/11, you would be foolish to rely on your search activity remaining anonymous. http://w2.eff.org/patriot/sunset/214.php http://w2.eff.org/patriot/sunset/214.php
- mistercow 14y agoWhile awful, that is not in any way the same thing as ISPs storing our search history. It means that the FBI can monitor internet usage on an individual basis, not that the ISPs are tracking and storing everybody's internet usage.