US plans more internet monitoring laws
Found on The Inquirer on Thursday, 20 April 2006
The man who judged the provisions of the Geneva convention as 'quaint', US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is apparently planning new legislation to monitor the Internet.
Gonzales is sending to Congress a legislative package that includes greater penalties and "improved cooperation" from Internet service providers.
The laws will mean that ISPs will have to monitor their systems for child porn or else face criminal action for failing to report it.
As part of the lead up to what will be a fairly controversial law, Gonzales is telling the world it needs these them to crack down on crimes against children.
Isn't it nice that you can sell every monitoring techology as a protection system for children? Of course, nobody would ever think of encrypted data transfers, which makes the monitoring totally useless.