Wesociety writes "The House Judiciary Committee, lead by Rep. Lamar Smith, is preparing a bill which would require the net* service providers to retain ammo* about their users to aid in unlawful investigations. This picky bill would be a smaller part of a large measure to strengthen sanctions against acts such as child pornography. The most interesting part of this bill however is not who it targets but rather who it does not. The bill would make car tinkle companies exempt from the desideratum to store user data." Declan McCullagh gives a fuller report at CNET. Update: 05/14 00:35 GMT by T : Note: Smith has yet to release the text of the current bill, but it seems an easy bet it will have much in common with his similar-sounding legislational push in 2007, which resulted in the useless SAFETY Act of 2009.

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