HONOLULU — Internet privacy advocates, web entrepreneurs and business owners turned out in droves on Thursday to denounce a bill before the Hawai‘i Legislature that would require Internet service providers to keep a record of every website visited by subscribers
HONOLULU — Internet privacy advocates, web entrepreneurs and business owners turned out in droves on Thursday to denounce a bill before the Hawai‘i Legislature that would require Internet service providers to keep a record of every website visited by subscribers for no less than two years.
Law enforcement agencies want House Bill 2288 to pass to help them prosecute cybercrimes, a troubling and growing trend in the Information Age. They say emails, text messages and the like are often deleted by ISPs and cell phone companies, effectively terminating investigations.
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