Comments on: DOJ, Net firms fail to agree on data retention

No agreement on forcing Internet companies to store data on Americans is reached at meeting, participants say.

[vamega]

Is this China

This is a democracy we are talking about. How can we be against china if the US is going to be forcing people to retain more data about their customer's than china is doing. I thought the US held privacy at a high level, Well i guess they to are turning communist

[techguy83]

no, not communist, but close

Facsist.

Welcome to the future United Fasctist States of Amerika.

I kid you not.

National ID card: Already passed and soon to be required by 2008. Although a state is not required to adopt this Id (there is a big Govt bonus for those that do), if a state chooses not to give in then that state's citizens will have to have a U.S. PASSPORT to drive or fly to another state in the Union.

This data retention: It will pass. Why? Because no one is going to risk their career when they scream that its for Terrorism.

Welcome to a world where freedom ends and govt rights over all citizens begin.

As Ben Franklin said: Those that give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

(I think thats the exact quote, but I may be wrong)

[VI Joker]

Slight difference...

... for the moment the government is not telling you what you can or cannot view or post online. However, I suspect that will come in time. Little by little the freedoms we hold dear will be taken in the name of protecting us from terrorists and child pornographers.

[connieabeln]

On a practical note...

I have a practical question?who will manage this data? Who will make sure it?s clean and usable, define its metadata, safeguard it, maintain its integrity, keep it when it?s part of an investigation or ongoing court case (we know those can take longer than 2 years!) and delete it at the end of its useful life? Will we have more data analysts working for the government, or will this work be outsourced to outside vendors, who may be outsourced to another country?