<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />|  House Panel Approves Bill Forcing ISPs To Log Users<br />|   from the  uncle-sam-wants-to-know-you-better dept.<br />|   posted by Soulskill on Friday  July 29, @16:18 (Government)<br />|   with 233 comments<br />|   <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/29/194213/House-Panel-Approves-Bill-Forcing-ISPs-To-Log-Users?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/29/194213/House-Panel-Approves-Bill-Forcing-ISPs-To-Log-Users?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />skids  writes "Under the guise of fighting child pornography, the House<br />Judiciary  Committee [0]approved legislation on Thursday that would<br />require internet  service providers to [1]collect and retain records about<br />Internet users'  activity. The [2]19 to 10 vote represents a victory for<br />conservative  Republicans, who made data retention their first major<br />technology initiative  after last fall's elections. A last-minute rewrite<br />of the bill expands the  information that commercial Internet providers<br />are required to store to  include customers' names, addresses, phone<br />numbers, credit card numbers, bank  account numbers, and<br />temporarily-assigned IP addresses. Per dissenting Rep.  John Conyers<br />(D-MI): 'The bill is mislabeled... This is not protecting  children from<br />Internet pornography. It's creating a database for everybody in  this<br />country for a lot of other purposes.'"<br /><br />Discuss this story  at:<br /> <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/29/194213/House-Panel-Approves-Bill-Forcing-ISPs-To-Log-Users?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/29/194213/House-Panel-Approves-Bill-Forcing-ISPs-To-Log-Users?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/">http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/</a><br /> 1. <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/house-committee-approves-bill-mandating-internet">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/house-committee-approves-bill-mandating-internet</a><br /> 2. <a href="http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2011/07/29/online-surveillance-bill-approved-by-house-judiciary-committee/">http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2011/07/29/online-surveillance-bill-approved-by-house-judiciary-committee/</a></p>