Reply #47: "PS How will this track pedophiles?" [View All]

[boppers]

It creates a log at an ISP of when you had an address. It doesn't track what sites you visited (headline was not written by a techie, surf away on gay porn if you want).

Here's how it typically works in real life:
1. Cops find porn operator website, or sent an email with a death threat to the POTUS, etc.
2. Cops grab evidence of what *addresses* visited that site, or sent the email.
3. Cops can use that to trace what ISP "owns" that address (this information is already public).
Now, here is the reason for law:
4.a) If an ISP doesn't keep any records of which person's equipment had that address, at which time, cops are at a dead end. There's usually enough information to say "oh, that's from someone living in southern florida, and using XYZ ISP", but it may not provide enough information to say *which* person using that ISP.
4.b) If an ISP *does* keep records of who logged on, when they logged on, and what addresses they have been assigned (and when), the cops can track it back to some specific person's equipment.