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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
fistf - I'm not sure what the insult to the the 4th Amendment is if I read the article correctly. It appears to me that the 96 law already requires data preservation for 90 days, and the proposed law would shift that to a permanent record which, theoretically, would be available upon presentation of a warrant. ISP's don't normally share their information without a warrant as it stands, and they've been storing 90 days worth of information for 10 years now. As I read it, the ISP isn't required to hand over all permanent records, but they do have to have it available.
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You are probably right in that the courts have/will say that this monitoring activity is OK. I guess I look at it as if the postal dept. is required to open and copy all your mail or asking the phone company to record all your conversations. Also, the proposal is to maintain our activity and correspondence for one year but I can easily see them requiring them to monitor you forever.
I think I read a while back in one of Bill Gate's books where he predicted that one day we would all be required to carry credit card sized GPS trackers and the info would be fed into national computers so the gov would know where you were within a few feet during your lifetime. This is to protect you from being charged for crimes when you were not there, etc.., LOL.
I wonder how far our government should be allowed to monitor us and whether we have any constitutional protection against blanket surveillance.