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This will die faster than SOPA
It's disguised as the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act," but what it really seeks to do is keep track of your personal information and every IP address you use.
It seeks to collect your name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses.
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Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill said, "'It represents a data bank of every digital act by every American' that would 'let us find out where every single American visited Web sites."
"The bill is mislabeled," said Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the panel. "This is not protecting children from Internet pornography. It's creating a database for everybody in this country for a lot of other purposes." [/quote]
The EFF has good information about it:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/0...ating-internet
Here's a place to send a letter to your reps:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/snooping_bill
Full text:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-1...12hr1981ih.pdf
It's disguised as the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act," but what it really seeks to do is keep track of your personal information and every IP address you use.
It seeks to collect your name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses.
<blockquote class='quote\\_blockquote'><dl><dt>Quote:</dt><dd> </dd></dl><div>
Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill said, "'It represents a data bank of every digital act by every American' that would 'let us find out where every single American visited Web sites."
"The bill is mislabeled," said Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the panel. "This is not protecting children from Internet pornography. It's creating a database for everybody in this country for a lot of other purposes." [/quote]
The EFF has good information about it:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/0...ating-internet
Here's a place to send a letter to your reps:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/snooping_bill
Full text:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-1...12hr1981ih.pdf
