{"id":3899,"date":"2011-01-30T20:18:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2011-01-30T20:18:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T20:18:38","slug":"gop_pushing_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3899","title":{"rendered":"GOP pushing for ISPs to record user data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31921_3-20029393-281.html?tag=cnetRiver\">Declan McCullagh:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>he House Republicans&#8217; first major technology initiative is about to be unveiled: a push to force Internet companies to keep track of what their users are doing.<br \/>\nA House panel chaired by <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yippy.com\/search?input-form=clusty-simple&#038;v%3Asources=webplus&#038;v%3Aproject=clusty&#038;query=%22James+Sensenbrenner%22\">Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner<\/a> of Wisconsin is scheduled to hold a hearing tomorrow morning to discuss forcing Internet providers, and perhaps Web companies as well, to store records of their users&#8217; activities for later review by police.<br \/>\nOne focus will be on reviving a dormant proposal for data retention that would require companies to store Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for two years, CNET has learned.<br \/>\nTomorrow&#8217;s data retention hearing is juxtaposed against the recent trend to protect Internet users&#8217; privacy by storing less data. Last month, the Federal Trade Commission called for &#8220;limited retention&#8221; of user data on privacy grounds, and in the last 24 hours, both Mozilla and Google have announced do-not-track technology.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing. I thought the economy was job #1 for the Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31921_3-20029393-281.html?tag=cnetRiver\">Declan McCullagh:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>he House Republicans&#8217; first major technology initiative is about to be unveiled: a push to force Internet companies to keep track of what their users are doing.<br \/>\nA House panel chaired by <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yippy.com\/search?input-form=clusty-simple&#038;v%3Asources=webplus&#038;v%3Aproject=clusty&#038;query=%22James+Sensenbrenner%22\">Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner<\/a> of Wisconsin is scheduled to hold a hearing tomorrow morning to discuss forcing Internet providers, and perhaps Web companies as well, to store records of their users&#8217; activities for later review by police.<br \/>\nOne focus will be on reviving a dormant proposal for data retention that would require companies to store Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for two years, CNET has learned.<br \/>\nTomorrow&#8217;s data retention hearing is juxtaposed against the recent trend to protect Internet users&#8217; privacy by storing less data. Last month, the Federal Trade Commission called for &#8220;limited retention&#8221; of user data on privacy grounds, and in the last 24 hours, both Mozilla and Google have announced do-not-track technology.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing. I thought the economy was job #1 for the Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,44,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}