United Liberty

You may have heard about the Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act, legislation introduced by Reps. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) currently working its way through the House that would require ISPs to retain data on customers for 12 months for the government to use in criminal investigations.

Since we’ve all been focused on the debt ceiling debate for the last few weeks, the House Judiciary Committee took advantage of the situation and pushed it through without much of an uproar. But now that we’re turning our attention to other issues, we’re finding out that the legislation is so bad that even Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), who introduced the PATRIOT Act back in 2001, opposes it.

Brian touched on it briefly yesterday, but here is Julian Sanchez explaining what the legislation does and how it would harmful to your privacy (and if you’re more the reading type, you can check out his detailed post on it here):