Hawaii may keep track of all Web sites visited

Hawaii may keep track of all Web sites visited(news.cnet.com)

36 points by daintynews 14 years ago | 8 comments

I wonder if Mizonu has actually ever spoken to anyone in the tech field abou this. I haven't read the text of the bill itself, but judging from the article it sounds like a first draft of something a high school freshman would write on the bus 10 minutes before it was due.

gee_totes 14 years ago | |

If only the bill had a Hawaii themed name, like SURF'S UP: Subjecting Users to Required Fusking of Sans-UDP Packets

NIL8 14 years ago |

I hope this gets more attention and doesn't slip under the radar. It's this type of thing that can be used to set precedence and allow other states to take the same measures.

One by one, state by state, the entire country will be sewed up unless we are vigilant.

CWuestefeld 14 years ago | |

I hope this gets more attention and doesn't slip under the radar.

On the contrary.

It seems (from the article; I haven't looked at the bill) that this is so poorly thought out and constructed that, if passed, it provides ample opportunity for a real demonstration of exactly why it's awful.

With a complete lack of specified privacy protections, how long do you think it will take for Mizuno and the other State legislators' records to be outed? Once their own dirty laundry is exposed for all to see, they'll try the usual gambits about staffers' unauthorized usage, etc., but it will be crystal clear to all just what happens when all that information is agglomerated.

furyg3 14 years ago | | |

They'll just make an exception for legislators, as is the case amongst so many other laws that don't apply to those who wrote them.

malandrew 14 years ago |

I reckon that if such a ridiculous law were to come to pass, you could create a script that uses your browser to visit random sites and deep follow links found on those sites at constant pace all the time. This would generate so much noise in such a list that it would be prohibitively expensive to determine what sites you actually visited.

On top of generating noise to obfuscate signal, this approach generates reasonable doubt.

Needle meet haystack. Haystack meet needle.

rdl 14 years ago |

Hopefully this is a plot to let civil liberties lawyers and other activists take tax-deductible trips to Hawaii this season (ostensibly to work against the bill, but, Hawaii in February).

(I already had a trip planned for Monday; I'll see about getting a meeting with some representatives while there...)

shingen 14 years ago |

In the not so distant future, people will pick the state they choose to live in based on Internet freedom.