Police: Internet providers must keep user logs

Law enforcement representatives are going to supports a proposed federal law that would require Internet service providers to store logs about their customers for 18 months.

The National Sheriffs' Association says it "strongly supports" mandatory data retention. Michael Brown, sheriff in Bedford County, Va., and a board member and executive committee member of the National Sheriffs' Association comments on the need of a new law:

"The limited data retention time and lack of uniformity among retention from company to company significantly hinders law enforcement's ability to identify predators when they come across child pornography. Any stored logs could, however, be used to prosecute any type of crime."

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