ClickZ reports the federal government is setting up a massive, almost-real-time database into which several major ISPs, financial services firms and e-commerce companies are to place their some of their data to help fight crime, particularly phishing attacks. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) will house the effort, dubbed Digital PhishNet, and include data from Microsoft, AOL, Earthlink, Lycos, Network Solutions and Verisign. Almost all of the top ten banks are also participating, although they proved a bit more jittery about privacy concerns and declined to be named.