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[Secondary Screening] "It was raised not once but several times in the meeting, very emphatically," said Dave McClure, president of the U.S. Internet Industry Association, which represents small to mid-size companies. "We were told, 'You're going to have to start thinking about data retention if you don't want people to think you're soft on child porn.'"

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[Cio.com] Did I Hear That Right? - Tech LinkLetter - Blog - CIO: Granted, I don’t know who McClure really works for: It could be that the IIA primarily represents ISPs like Verizon and Comcast that own their networks as opposed to, say, Earthlink or America Online.

[Cbdd.typepad.com] rural: The Virtual Frontier is our name for a special project in Ferry County that will demonstrate the power of entrepreneurship and technology to revitalize the future of work in impoverished frontier communities. Our partners include the Tri-County Economic Development District (TEDD), Curlew Job Corps, Ferry County Commissioners, and the three local high schools, along with regional partners including NPower and the WSU Center to Bridge the Digital Divide.

[Ethos.org] ethos/SUNDAY TRIBUNE COLUMN 17 APRIL 2005: For the ISPs to hand over such names would be a breach of the Data Protection Act but yet they were asked anyway. One major Irish ISP thankfully said it would only do so as a result of a court order*.

[Thestandard.com] - Confusion continues over UK data retention laws - Internet ...: While many ISPs already keep data for billing purposes, they are now being asked to hold it for longer and to make sure that it can be searched for relevant data. Telephone subscriber and call information should be kept for 12 months, e-mail and ISP subscriber data should be held for six months, and Web activity information for four days, Matt Brook, a spokesman for the U.K.

[Jangro.com] Jangro: Affiliate Marketing, Search Engines, and Web Development: Shawn Collins also writes about discussions going on behind closed doors between Affiliate Managers and offers one solution, to take the retention affiliates out of the main program and track them separately in an in-house solution. Doing so acknowledges that these partners do add value, like “personal shoppers", but also adds complexity in operating more than one tracking solution.

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