Another Call for Data Retention Mandates

by on October 18, 2006

In a speech today before the International Association of Chiefs of Police, FBI Director Robert Mueller called for data retention mandates for Internet service providers to record their customers’ online activities. Declan McCullagh has complete coverage over at CNet.

Several of us here at the TLF are concerned about these growing calls for mandatory data collection and have written about it. See these past essays:

* “Mandatory Data Retention: How Much is Appropriate?” by Adam Thierer, June 26, 2006.

* “Internet Data Storage Is The Wrong Way To Combat Child Sexual Exploitation,” by Hance Haney, Sept. 20, 2006.

* “Data Retention on the Move,” by Jim Harper, June 1, 2006.

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Adam Thierer

Adam Thierer / Senior Fellow in Technology & Innovation at the R Street Institute in Washington, DC. Formerly a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, President of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, Director of Telecommunications Studies at the Cato Institute, and a Fellow in Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation.

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