Remember that 2GB of AOL users that slipped out a few weeks back? Sci-Tech Today reports that Congress is looking to change this. Markey's bill is H.R. 4731, the Eliminate Warehousing of Consumer Internet Data Act (EWOCID). The bill would require Internet companies to destroy obsolete electronic data, and particularly data that could be used to individually identify consumers. The bill would also instruct the Federal Trade Commission to set up standards for the maintenance and destruction of data, and enforce the provisions of the law. It's quite shocking to see the US government actually gets it for once.
