The Justice Department wants Congress to mandate that internet service providers retain data on their users’ internet usage for a longer period of time. And to illustrate how important the feds think the having access to that IP data is, they’re using the story of how law enforcement failed to track down the maker of a video depicting the rape of a two-year-old girl.“In one heart-wrenching example of the harm that a lack of data retention can cause, an undercover investigation that discovered a movie depicting the rape of a two-year-old child that was being traded on the internet was stymied because the ISP that had first transmitted the video had not retained information concerning the transmitter,” Justice Department lawyer Jason Weinstein wrote in his written remarks submitted at a Senate Judicary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday. “Despite considerable effort, the child was not rescued and the criminals involved were not apprehended.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=111721