Protecting Children Against Pornography
Legislators have presented a Congressional bill to the committee entitled “The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011”. This has raised some concerns among privacy advocates who said that so far, this would be the biggest threat to civil liberties. They say that many people are prone to think that this legislation is timely and needed to address child pornography. This is expected because every person who is in their right mind should always abhor child pornography.
But why do privacy advocates seem to react negatively to the proposed law? It is because, when it’s thought about fully, such legislation would turn everyone who uses the internet into a victim. They contend that this law, if passed, would require all internet service providers (or ISPs) to track everything that a user does online and save it for 18 months. In addition to this, ISPs are supposed to store this information together with the user’s name, home address, bank account and credit card numbers, and their assigned IP address.

