WASHINGTON—The Bush administration hasn’t settled on what data it would like Internet service providers to retain about their subscribers or for how long, a U.S. Department of Justice attorney said Tuesday.
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales made it clear last fall that he planned to seek national legislation requiring the controversial practice known as data retention, but “we don’t have any position officially about how long records would have to be retained or what records would have to be retained,” said Eric Wenger, a trial attorney with the Justice Department’s computer crime unit.