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From aymbt.com

FBI Director Robert Mueller called on Internet service providers to record their customers’ online activities.

Again the two excuses that are heard all too often are “terrorists are planning” and “all in the name of the safety of our children from sexual predators”, were given by Mueller in a speech at a police conference in Boston.

All too often, we find that before we can catch these offenders, Internet service providers have unwittingly deleted the very records that would help us identify these offenders and protect future victims, said Mueller.

The 1996 Electronic Communication Transactional Records Act requires an ISP to hold records for 90 days, upon the request of a governmental entity. ISPs are also required by federal law to report child pornography sightings to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Everyone from ISPs to companies that sell domain names (the actual web-sites you visit), even search engines, blogs and VoiPs (Voice over Internet providers) would possibly be required to keep and maintain logs of their users.

I am asked why I am so concerned about the tracking of people? If I have nothing to hide, why worry about it? Why? You can’t change anything. You’re just one person. You need to get your own life in order before you can worry about all this. I slept on it last night and dreamed an answer.

It started out I was in a movie theater, I see up on the screen myself and a small white box sitting next to me. It had my name in big, bold letters with the lid just barely open. I stepped away from the box when it starts making chatter (like a phone call). I hear my parents, my wife, my children, my friends, solicitors, teachers and even operators all talking at the same time. I open the box and a screen pops up and flashes every e-mail I ever wrote, all the web-sites I ever visited, every document written, again all showing to the audience a mere glimpse of what makes me me.

I pick up the box and turn it over and little yellow sticky notes start falling to the ground, on the notes are pictures of my entire life with little captions underneath showing where they were taken. I am greatly disturbed that my life is being displayed on screen in a full theater. I start to leave when a gentleman says to me, “You don’t like what you see? And I responded “it’s not that. I haven’t anything horrible to hide, i’s just that I would like to open my box in private.”

I am not against protecting my children from predators. I am not against the security of my country. Everyone wants to feel safe. We as the human race need to look deeper and see what makes predators, what drives a terrorist, what makes people not have a conscience. Then find a way to fix these problems.