The House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has sent a 7-page letter to the Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Deborah Majoras regarding P2P networks and the danger involved with users possibly sharing sensitive information inadvertently.
The concern here is that users could expose personal and identifiable information without meaning to. This looks like Congress' latest stint to find reasons to shut down P2P networks in hopes of squashing the plague of copyright infringement. Those that formatted this letter have also asked the FTC to outline any risks it believe are associated with P2P networks.
Is this really enough reason to investigate or try and get rid of P2P networks all together? Of course not. No details on how the FTC will handle this case have yet emerged. Some other issues we've seen higher authorities involved in are the Internet tax ban, and Australian Parliament regarding police ability to block websites. In other news, BitTorrent has signed a new CEO and CTO.