Internet Providers to Save User Data Under Child-Porn Bill
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The U.S. House Judiciary Committee approved a measure today that would require Internet-service providers to save subscriber information to aid investigations of child pornography.
The bill, HR 1981, was approved on a 19-10 vote. It would obligate Internet providers to retain customers’ Internet Protocol addresses for a year. ISPs “routinely purge these records, sometimes just days after they are created,” Representative Lamar Smith, chairman of the committee, said in a statement yesterday.