CNET News.com: "The concept of forcing companies to record information about their users' Internet activities to aid in future criminal prosecutions took another twist this week.
Rep. Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat, originally proposed legislation (click here for PDF) in April that would require Internet service providers to retain activity logs to aid in criminal investigations, including ones of child abuse.
Now DeGette and some of her colleagues in the House of Representatives are suggesting that social-networking sites should be required to do the same thing.
'How much would it cost your company to preserve those IP addresses?' DeGette asked at a hearing on Wednesday that included representatives from Facebook.com, Xanga.com and Fox Interactive Media, the parent company of MySpace.com. 'You're going to store the data indefinitely?'
An IP address is a unique four-byte address used to communicate with a device on a computer network that relies on the Internet Protocol. An IP address associated with CNET.com, for instance, is 216.239.113.101. "
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