posted on January 26, 2004 05:39:15 PM new
Interesting article, Gravid. Dean's (apparent) views on what would amount to "tracking" ALL Internet users is equally disturbing...
posted on January 26, 2004 06:28:27 PM new
Heh, perhaps he's "in on" the 'spy technology' our government has been perfecting since the 1960's. Those U-2 photographs were nothing compared to what can now be achieved and, as I understand it, our "eavesdropping" capabilities became downright scary in the '80's. Twenty years later, who would be silly enough to think we haven't made science fiction-like advances in "monitoring" anyone, anywhere, anytime? Yeah, it gives one the creeps, and flies in the face of the notion of a "free society", but what to do? Since they stopped allowing the sale of ballistic missiles on eBay, I feel rather powerless...
posted on January 27, 2004 09:36:54 AM new
National IDs and internet tracking technology are not prohibited by the Bill of Rights.
It has been found constitutional that you can be jailed until the police can reasonably identify you. Thus, a national ID would no offend that line of constitutional reasoning.
Tracking internet usage is no more offensive than tracking your long distance calls which has been done forever.
ISPs already must log your IP address and usage so that what is done with your computer can be traced. It no big deal for those of us with a static IP address.How do you think the RIAA gets the IDs of the people it sues?
As an aside, I asked a programer at AOL about logging IP usage and how long the records are maintained. He asked his boss and got this answer--- ISPs are required to log all IP address usage and we are not permitted to say how long the records are stored.
So in effect, you internet usage history is already being stored.
