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The SAFETY Act and Online Privacy

By Corey Rayburnyung

A Stitch in Haste raises questions about the proposed SAFETY Act in a post titled, "We Must Be Winning the War on Terror?":This proposed Internet SAFETY Act (which will almost certainly die in committee) is the height of government impropriety. Besides the absurdly prohibitive cost ? the boring old financial cost ? of establishing, implementing and maintaining these records, there is also the cost in terms of the privacy rights regarding the 99.9999% of Internet use that is not ?trafficking in kiddie porn.? That is a bona fide cost that simply must be weighed against the purported benefits of preventing or punishing such trafficking. It has been settled doctrine, for centuries, that sometimes justice must overlook the guilty in order to protect the innocent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).