Mandatory Labeling, ISP Data Retention Proposal Raises Concern - Attorney General Gonzales today called for mandatory data retention requirements for Internet service providers, asserting that such requirements would be useful in online child pornography investigations. Data retention requirements would be burdensome, raise serious privacy concerns, and be of questionable value given existing laws that require ISPs to preserve data at the request of law enforcement. The proposed legislation would also require mandatory labeling of sexually explicit content, a provision CDT believes would be ineffective in protecting kids, as well as being a form of forced speech that violates the First Amendment. April 20, 2006
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