Companies like Google, Comcast, Verizon, and Microsoft have recently met with the Department of Justice and the FBI on the suggestions that those Internet companies retain user web activities for as long as two years to help fight terrorism and child pornography.
reported that the data retained would be exchanges of emails, though not the content of those messages, and web searches.
The government sees this information as essential to the combating of terrorism and child pornography. Previous
Complications come from keeping a growing volume of data retained for a period that exceeds the 30 to 90 days most Internet service providers retain that data. Companies like Google and Microsoft keep much more data on hand and are likely the true targets of the Justice request.
"Child pornography is disgusting and illegal," Steve Langdon, a spokesman for Google, said in a Mercury News Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl
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David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business. 
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