02.07.10
Dr. Kardasz presentation to Online Safety and Technology Working Group (OSTWG)
On February 4, 2010, I provided a presentation to an Online Safety and Technology Working Group panel at the Commerce Department in Washington DC. The subject was the contentious topic of data retention. I included thoughts and opinions from law enforcement investigators who work Internet crimes against children, some good – some bad.
Parts of my presentation to the panel were not well-received by some of the Internet Service Providers in the room. At one point I praised their good work, but when I criticized some of their failings one lawyer (from AOL) shouted, “Objection!” as if we were in court, and the committee chair-lawyer (from News Corporation/MySpace) – the apparent judge – sustained the objection and asked me to delete the offending PowerPoint slides. The kangaroo OSTWG court was not pleased with some of my work.
In a preemptive attempt to discredit the work, one media-member of the group was already misquoting the information and taking it out of context in an article the day before I gave the lecture.
I guess they do not want Congress to hear all sides of the arguments.
Below is a link to my un-redacted presentation, including the offending slides.
Here are the slides:
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3XfthhGWg7RYmY3YWQ2NTItYWIzZi00NGI1LWJhNjktOWQ3ZjFkNWEwMGI1&hl=en
Here is the text:
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3XfthhGWg7RYWY5MzRjZTktYTMzYS00Y2ViLWFhYTItMjMzZjkyMzg3N2Rl&hl=en
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Here is another analogy describing the reporting system whereby Internet service providers respond – or sometimes do not respond – with customer subscriber information to investigators hunting Internet predators:
“When the ISP-law enforcement information response system works efficiently and we arrest an offender it feels like Snoopy and the good-guys beating the evil Red Baron. On bad days, when nothing comes through from the ISP, it is as if our own allies accidentally knocked out the radar station with friendly-fire and we cannot locate the enemy.“
- Dr. Frank Kardasz
