"It's ironic that at a time when so many in Congress seemingly want online providers to collect and retain less data about users, this bill proposes that ISPs be required to collect and retain more data," Progress and Freedom Foundation Senior Fellow Adam Thierer said, wondering how the conflicting legislative priorities will be reconciled. "It's good that Congress is taking steps to address the scourge of child pornography... Extensive data retention mandates, however, would be unlikely to help much anyway given the ease with which bad guys will likely circumvent those requirements using alternative access points or proxies," he said.

The Center for Democracy and Technology General Counsel John Morris said a robust data preservation regime is already in place and new efforts in that arena pose privacy concerns. Meanwhile, the head of the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association said before advancing new legislation, it is crucial to see how current law will change with the implementation of another child safety measure, which former President George W. Bush signed in October. USISPA Executive Director Kate Dean, whose group represents AOL, AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and others, said the new statute made great strides to improve investigations and prosecutions and provided more resources to law enforcement.

We have discussed this within our entitity and the decision will be to shut down our wireless public services because administratively it is a nightmare. For example, most airports provide free WiFi. This will stop and they will have to have every user register their information so that a log can be kept of their use of the WiFI and stored.

This law even affects your home WiFi as as the law is written you are a provider of an electronic communcation service (WiFi) using a temporary IP address (DHCP). As written this law will require every homeowner with WiFi to keep such records for two years.