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It’s not just in Argentina.

The Dept. of Justice here in the good ole USA wants internet service providers (ISPs) to maintain records of what their customers do on the internet for at least several months.

Justice Department officials endorsed the concept at a private meeting with Internet service providers and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, according to interviews with multiple people who were present. The meeting took place on April 27 at the Holiday Inn Select in Alexandria, Va.

“It was raised not once but several times in the meeting, very emphatically,” said Dave McClure, president of the U.S. Internet Industry Association, which represents small to midsize companies. “We were told, ‘You’re going to have to start thinking about data retention if you don’t want people to think you’re soft on child porn.’”

McClure said that while the Justice Department representatives argued that Internet service providers should cooperate voluntarily, they also raised the “possibility that we should create by law a standard period of data retention.” McClure added that “my sense was that this is something that they’ve been working on for a long time.”