Is there something about Texas that makes Texans anti-American? I don’t know. I saw this link at Making Light. It sounds fairly disgusting and quite similar to other sentiments coming out of Washington for the past 6-7 years.
One of our founding principles is that that Big brother stays out of our affairs except with a warrant. Storing unspecified data for unspecified periods of time is just so wrong, I don’t know where to begin.
Be sure to let your congress critter know that that this is wrong, and point out to them that with all this data being stored, it will be a lot easier to track down a corrupt politician a few years later…
UPDATE: People appear to have conflated to different ideas into one horrible mess. The bill partially defines ISPs and E-mail Service providers as entities that store content for customers. The only data that is required is the contact information for their customers, not the content that was stored. I still think this is an onerous requirement to make on an ISP, unlimited storage of transient customer’s details. But it doesn’t appear to be as grievous as the initial presentation made it out to be.
I still wonder about Texas though.