SOPA Act

I'm relatively certain you could've had better info with barely 2 minutes of googling;

http://swordattheready.wordpress.com/201...or-a-year/
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FBI-R...ion-106799
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommuni..._retention

It's 12 months. Not 84. And only very specific info.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-200849...ping-bill/

Well then, I guess my paranoia got the better of me on this one. I always thought that VPN was the only way to truly transfer data that can't be accessed later at the ISP level. A year is still quite a lot of data, but nowhere near as bad as 7 I suppose.

However, from what I'm seeing from that last article, it isn't just specific information...

It represents "a data bank of every digital act by every American" that would "let us find out where every single American visited Web sites"

The original version of the bill, introduced in May, required Internet providers to "retain for a period of at least 18 months the temporarily assigned network addresses the service assigns to each account, unless that address is transmitted by radio communication." The wireless exemption appeared to be the result of lobbying from major carriers, but drew the ire of the Justice Department, which says it didn't go far enough

however, it does make a distinction between retention and preservation that I did not know about,

"Retention" vs. "preservation"
At the moment, Internet service providers typically discard any log file that's no longer required for business reasons such as network monitoring, fraud prevention, or billing disputes. Companies do, however, alter that general rule when contacted by police performing an investigation--a practice called data preservation.

A 1996 federal law called the Electronic Communication Transactional Records Act regulates data preservation. It requires Internet providers to retain any "record" in their possession for 90 days "upon the request of a governmental entity."

Is the "preservation" period still only 90 days, or was it increased to the full year with this bill?