[DRB]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14908278/

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Congress should require Internet service providers to preserve customer records, asserting that prosecutors need them to fight child pornography.

Testifying to a Senate panel, Gonzales acknowledged the concerns of some company executives who say legislation might be overly intrusive and encroach on customers' privacy rights. But he said the growing threat of child pornography over the Internet was too great.

Justice Department officials have said that any proposal would not call for the content of communications to be preserved and would keep the information in the companies' hands. The data could be obtained by the government through a subpoena or other lawful process.

 

[Silver]

Google should say fine, and then put the records from the Attorney General's office up on a public website, with ip addresses.

After all, if you have nothing to hide...

 

[Old Man G Funk]

But he said the growing threat of child pornography over the Internet was too great.

We can't wait until it's too late for the smoking gun, or the smoking gun might be a mushroom cloud.