[x-pubpol] Hawaii may keep track of all Web sites visited

[Joly MacFie]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57366443-281/hawaii-may-keep-track-of-all-web-sites-visited/

 Hawaii's House of Representatives has scheduled a hearing this morning on
a new bill (PDF<http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2012/Bills/HB2288_.pdf>)
requiring the creation of virtual dossiers on state residents. The measure,
H.B. 2288, says "Internet destination history information" and
"subscriber's information" such as name and address must be saved for two
years.

H.B. 2288, which was introduced Friday, says the dossiers must include a
list of Internet Protocol addresses and domain names visited. Democratic Rep.
John Mizuno <http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hsemaj/mizuno_john.html> of Oahu
is the lead sponsor; Mizuno also introduced H.B.
2287<http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=2287>,
a computer crime bill, at the same time last week.

Last summer, U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) managed to
persuade<http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20084939-281/house-panel-approves-broadened-isp-snooping-bill/>
a
divided committee in the U.S. House of Representatives to approve his data
retention proposal, which doesn't go nearly as far as Hawaii's.


Mizuno's proposal currently specifies no privacy protections, such as
placing restrictions on what Internet providers can do with this
information (like selling user profiles to advertisers) or requiring that
police obtain a court order before perusing the virtual dossiers of
Hawaiian citizens. Also absent are security requirements such as the use of
encryption.

Because the wording is so broad and applies to any company that "provides
access to the Internet," Mizuno's legislation could sweep in far more than
AT&T, Verizon, and Hawaii's local Internet providers. It could also impose
sweeping new requirements on coffee shops, bookstores, and hotels
frequented by the over 6 million tourists who visit the islands each year.

"H.B. 2288 raises all of the traditional concerns associated with data
retention, and then some," Kate Dean, head of the U.S. Internet Service
Provider Association, which counts Verizon and AT&T as members, told CNET.
"And this may be the broadest mandate we've seen."

Even the Justice Department has only lobbied the U.S. Congress to record
Internet Protocol addresses assigned to individuals--users' origin IP
address, in other words. It hasn't publicly demanded that companies record
the destination IP addresses as well.
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