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by Eugen Leitl 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10168114-38.html Bill proposes ISPs, Wi-Fi keep logs for police by Declan McCullagh Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations. The legislation, which echoes a measure proposed by one of their Democratic colleagues three years ago, would impose unprecedented data retention requirements on a broad swath of Internet access providers and is certain to draw fire from businesses and privacy advocates. "While the Internet has generated many positive changes in the way we communicate and do business, its limitless nature offers anonymity that has opened the door to criminals looking to harm innocent children," U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said at a press conference on Thursday. "Keeping our children safe requires cooperation on the local, state, federal, and family level." Joining Cornyn was Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who said such a measure would let "law enforcement stay ahead of the criminals." Two bills have been introduced so far--S.436 in the Senate and H.R.1076 in the House. Each of the companion bills is titled "Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act," or Internet Safety Act. Each contains the same language: "A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user." Translated, the Internet Safety Act applies not just to AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and so on--but also to the tens of millions of homes with Wi-Fi access points or wired routers that use the standard method of dynamically assigning temporary addresses. (That method is called Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP.) "Everyone has to keep such information," says Albert Gidari, a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm in Seattle who specializes in this area of electronic privacy law. The legal definition of electronic communication service is "any service which provides to users thereof the ability to send or receive wire or electronic communications." The U.S. Justice Department's position is that any service "that provides others with means of communicating electronically" qualifies. That sweeps in not just public Wi-Fi access points, but password-protected ones too, and applies to individuals, small businesses, large corporations, libraries, schools, universities, and even government agencies. Voice over IP services may be covered too. Under the Internet Safety Act, all of those would have to keep logs for at least two years. It "covers every employer that uses DHCP for its network," Gidari said. "It covers Aircell on airplanes-- hose little pico cells will have to store a lot of data for those in-the-air Internet users." In the Bush administration, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had called for a very similar proposal, saying that subscriber information and network data should be logged for two years. Until Gonzales' remarks in 2006, the Bush administration had generally opposed laws requiring data retention, saying it had "serious reservations" about them. But after the European Parliament approved such a requirement for Internet, telephone and VoIP providers, top administration officials began talking about the practice more favorably. After Gonzales left the Justice Department, the political will for data retention legislation seemed to ebb for a time, but then FBI Director Robert Mueller resumed lobbying efforts last spring. This tends to be a bipartisan sentiment: Attorney General Eric Holder, a Democrat, said in 1999 that "certain data must be retained by ISPs for reasonable periods of time so that it can be accessible to law enforcement." Rep. John Conyers, the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said that FBI proposals for data retention legislation "would be most welcome." Smith, who sponsored the House version of the Internet Safety Act, had previously introduced a one-year requirement as part of a law-and-order agenda in 2007. A 1996 federal law called the Electronic Communication Transactional Records Act regulates data preservation. It requires Internet providers to retain any "record" in their possession for 90 days "upon the request of a governmental entity." Because Internet addresses remain a relatively scarce commodity, ISPs tend to allocate them to customers from a pool based on whether a computer is in use at the time. (Two standard techniques used are the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet.) In addition, Internet providers are required by another federal law to report child pornography sightings to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which is in turn charged with forwarding that report to the appropriate police agency. The Internet Safety Act is broader than just data retention. Other portions add criminal penalties to other child pornography-related offenses, increase penalties for sexual exploitation of minors, and give the FBI an extra $30 million for the "Innocent Images National Initiative."

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by Eugen Leitl 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/D… Lamar Smith: A better way to catch child porn perps online 04:07 PM CST on Thursday, February 19, 2009 It's hard to turn on the television today without running across a crime drama whose central theme is the pursuit of justice. Each night, cases are solved and justice is served, all in the space of 60 minutes. What's The Big Story? Find out at dallasnews.com/opinion Blog: Opinion But that's not how it happens off screen, where law and order is much harder to attain and too often ends in justice delayed or never achieved. A big reason is that officers are forced to rely on outdated tools when it comes to crimes committed online. And the most affected victims are often too young to tell their stories. Law enforcement officials had a chokehold on child pornography before the Internet exploded. Perpetrators relied on the postal service to traffic their trade, and, by the end of the 1980s, postal investigators were winning the battle. But the Internet changed everything. Now criminals can view pictures, download videos and watch the live molestation of a child. Pedophiles have, in effect, found a safe haven online. A 2006 federal case shows just how depraved and technologically savvy these criminals are. Twenty-seven individuals from four countries were charged in connection with an Internet chat room used to trade child porn and view molestations. Of the seven victims identified, one was under 18 months in age. Law enforcement is doing everything in its power to save these children, but we are losing the online battle. Congress must do more, starting with requiring Internet service providers to retain subscriber information for a specific period of time. This is no different than what Congress already has mandated for telephone companies. How many times have we seen TV detectives seek call logs of a suspect in order to determine who he has been talking to? What if the telephone companies simply said to the detectives, "Sorry, we get rid of that information after 24 hours?" That is exactly what has happened nationwide when it comes to obtaining that information from ISPs. Anytime an individual goes online, the ISP assigns a temporary IP address. When law enforcement officials find a child porn site, the only information they have to identify the users are these addresses. To match an address with an actual person, investigators must contact the service provider. Too often, the response is that the provider has not retained the information. A real-life example involves a video showing the violent rape of a 2-year-old girl that was found online and traced to a computer in Colorado. When investigators approached the service provider in order to match the IP address with the Internet subscriber, the provider had already purged the records. The rapist remains at large; the child has never been found. Sen. John Cornyn and I have introduced the Internet Safety Act, which directs ISPs to retain specified data for up to two years. This can help law enforcement officials identify who is uploading, viewing and distributing explicit child pornography. Opponents of the bill say it's an invasion of privacy, but that's not the case. The government can only access subscriber information as part of a criminal investigation. It simply allows us to match the IP address of a suspect to an individual. If we require phone companies to retain this same type of information, there is no reason why the law should not be updated to include ISPs. Law enforcement officials should have the tools they need to fight crime, whether committed over the phone, through the mail or online. Lamar Smith represents Texas' 21st Congressional District, which includes parts of San Antonio and Austin, and is the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. He can be reached through www.lamarsmith.house.gov.

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