British authorities on Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to log details about every Web visit, email, phone call or text message in the U.K. ”“ and in a sharply-worded editorial the nation’s top law enforcement official accused those worried about the surveillance program of being either criminals or conspiracy theorists.
The government insists it’s not after content. It promises not to read the body of emails or eavesdrop on phone calls without a warrant. But the surveillance proposed in the government’s 118-page draft bill would provide authorities a remarkably rich picture of their citizens’ day-to-day lives, tracking nearly everything they do online, over the phone, or even through the post.
All that data would be kept for up to a year ”“ ready for browsing whenever anyone in authority wanted it. In some cases, the bill envisages monitoring the information in real time.
Home Office Secretary Theresa May said in an editorial published ahead of the bill’s unveiling that only evil-doers should be frightened.
Hack everything these ‘authorities’ do for a month and see how they feel about privacy then.
And we all know that governments always keep their promises. NOT!
I’m sure that capability already exists and is being used selectively and illegally in the UK and USA already. Some other countries are probably doing it more openly – China, Iran, etc.
Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
- Denis Diderot
“in a sharply-worded editorial the nation’s top law enforcement official accused those worried about the surveillance program of being either criminals or conspiracy theorists.”
Classic fascist.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them,and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows,or with both~FDouglas
Nope. It’s true, the government won’t be listening. QinetiQ will, which is now a private company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinetiq
This is also the Conservative government that, in opposition, rightly called out Labour for its CCTV surveillance schemes saying they were a massive infringement of civil liberty. Now they’re in government, though, what the last government did before is taken as prelude and permission. Plus ce la meme chose.
until one of Rupert’s Minions calls chasing down a hot tip.
then, you’re a hotter topic than Paris Hilton, and to just as many people, too…
That’s the trouble with Total Information Awareness….Data once collected gets used–usually for nefarious purposes.
“It’s no longer IOKIYAR….It’s OK If You’re A Republican, but IOKBYAR–It’s OK BECAUSE You’re a Republican.” — Me