It allows you to search someone's family tree using their full or partial name. To survive a free speech challenge, any legal restrictions Congress imposes would have to comply with the First Amendment, which limits government controls on publications and websites. Rep. Pease has gotten it all backwards.
Genealogists are neither a new threat, nor any threat at all.
Mothers' maiden names are available from numerous public sources, while the security risk of using them for passwords is increasingly well known. Industry representatives weren't as willing to agree that aggressive government regulation in the high-tech industry was necessary. Wired News intern Nicholas Morehead contributed to this report. Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved.