The Internet Safety Act and the Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act (

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ized SAFETY) were two

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s introduced in 2009 requiring "a provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service o

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for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the

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of a user of a

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the service assigns to that user." Neither bill was passed by

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."H.R. 1076 (111th): Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today’s Youth (SAFETY) Act of 2009"
GovTrack, Civic Impulse, LLC, retrieved 9 September 2013.

References

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