by Heather Cassell for Bay Area Reporter
A proposed amendment to a federal recordkeeping law could force adult social networking Web sites and other Internet sites to gather and maintain users' identification.
Civil liberties organizations have slammed the proposal, and have submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of adult social networking and adult entertainment Web sites that could be severely crippled by the amendment to the federal labeling and recordkeeping law.
Public comment about the new rules and regulations to Section 2257 of the recordkeeping law closed September 10. The new regulations are a product of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, which is designed to prevent sexual and other violent crimes against children, and regulate sexually explicit digital images online.
"The proposed amendment to the federal labeling and recordkeeping law will surely at the least have a chilling effect on users of social networking Web sites, and at the worst [is] an outright and unacceptable invasion of privacy," wrote Roberta Sklar, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force spokeswoman, in an e-mail.
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