Justice Department Seeks Your Web Records

Your Web activity may be scrutinized a little more closely in coming days, and records of it are going to stick around for longer than in the past. The U.S. Justice Department has asked giants AOL, Google, and Microsoft to hold onto accounts of their users' online actions for up to two years. The information is intended to help with investigations into terrorism and child pornography. "We have begun initial discussions with Internet service providers and others on this issue of data retention to help the department with bolstering its investigative efforts," said Brian Roehrkasse, a Justice Department spokesman. Privacy advocates are raising their voices in opposition to the request, and Google and Microsoft have already gotten into legal tangles over the issue. Roehrkasse admitted that the Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Doug is a staff writer for Murdok for the latest eBusiness news.