What Did You Do On the Web Last Year?
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales wants Google, Microsoft and everybody else to keep records of what you’ve been up to:
Justice is not asking the companies to keep the content of e-mails, spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said. It wants records such as lists of e-mail traffic and Web searches, he said.
Roehrkasse said the government is required to seek proper legal authority, such as a subpoena, before obtaining the records. He said any change in the retention period would not alter that requirement. Law enforcement officials have seen investigations derailed “time and time again” because of a lack of data, Roehrkasse said.
U.S. asks Internet firms to save data
