Slashdot has picked up a report from the credit card industry lobbyist "Freedom's Watch" group saying that small businesses will be required to report electronic transactions to the federal government.

The same bill was attacked by the blog of the Competitive Enterprise Institute for requiring fingerprinting of mortgage brokers, a story slashdot also picked up.

I don't have all the facts yet, but this is a story I'm keeping my eye on.

This sort of thing is going on all the time now. A judge just gave Viacom access to all of Google's YouTube logs.