There are bills in the House and Senate that require all businesses, restaurants, and homeowners to install cameras to record all visitors to their houses and business locations. All of the visitors must be photographed, identified and recorded. Additionally, these logs must be kept for two years, at your expense. You are responsible for the equipment, the logging, and the data retension.  If you don’t do as required or the data is lost, you are responsible and, as such, will be fined.

Well, that first paragraph is not entirely true..not yet(it’s the next step). But there is a bill in both the House and Senate to require wireless internet providers, including businesses, and homeowners, to keep two years worth of records for their wireless networks that use dynamic IP addressing. The exact language is:

“A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user.”

Since that is nearly impossible for the average homeowner, I don’t see the bills passing in their current form. Either way, it’s the electronic version of the first paragraph. Whether it passes or not, the point is, they’re trying.