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September 28, 2007
Bill Would Up Fines for Slow ISP Response to Child Porn
Anne Broache has an entry on the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, which was approved by the Senate Commerce Committee yesterday.
ISPs face bigger fines if they don't alert law enforcement when they discover child pornography -- the amount was changed from $100,000 to $300,000 -- and it calls for a working group to review existing parental control technology, filtering software and other tools for effectiveness.
Broache's entry picks up another provision: ISP data retention policies will probably come up for review, too, renewing federal attempts to introduce longer periods before providers can dump logs.
Search engines, of course, already cite "child predators" as one reason they hold onto logs as long as they do.
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