Internet makes life easy for Big Brother

Alien54 wrote with a link to a Wired blog entry noting that May 14th is the official deadline for internet service providers to modify their networks, and meet the FBI and FCC's new regulations. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act requires that everyone from cable services to Universities give them access, within certain parameters, to the usage habits of customers.

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Yet another way to get the consumers to pay for the surveillance. It seems like every other week I cross a news story about one kind of tracking or another. At some point, the powers that be are going to figure4e out it doesn't do them much good to track so closely. The real way to keep a community out of trouble is to remove the reason people do bad things in the first place. That is not always possible.