Digital Pack Rat by Mandate

Julian Sanchez | June 16, 2005

Declan McCullagh reports that the Department of Justice is pondering data retention rules that would require Internet service providers to retain users' e-mail, chat, and web browsing records just in case investigators ever want them.

Declan wrote about the benefits of living in a Database Nation back in our variable-cover issue from July 2004. This is presumably not what he was talking about.