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At any given time, there always seems to be one pending piece of legislation that would annihilate your right to privacy in the alleged service of some greater good. I'm as against child pornography as anyone on this planet but dealing with it does seem to be among the all-purpose excuses when someone wants to take away civil rights. Conor Friedersdorf writes about a new proposal that would track and record your every move on the Internet on the dubious (I think) premise that this would snag a few folks who traffic in kiddie porn.