UK To Require Service Providers Monitor And Store Info On Users
from the more-data-isn't-good-data dept
Despite lots of criticism over the plan, UK politicians are moving forward with demands that online service providers store and monitor certain types of internet communications. While the government will be compensating service providers for some of this (your tax dollars at work), it's still a rather large burden on these service providers, and raises all sorts of privacy questions. Oh, and on top of all of that, we've already seen that law enforcement in the UK is struggling to cope with the fact that they're already inundated with too much data. They don't want more data, they need better data. Making service providers hang onto even more data doesn't help the situation, it just opens up the potential for serious privacy invasion.
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Encryption Anyone
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1) RIAA, lord M, and IFPI press for three strikes
2) people use more encryption so as to not get caught
3) MI5 and MI6 dont want and cant deal with all the encryption
4) terrorists get away with some horrible plot and kill alot of people.
So logically RIAA and IFPI actual cause terrorism
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Nothing new.
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There's always something to smile about
They can't even manage regular data essential to their business, honestly, they seriously expect these Muppets to store and maintain secret data that will be used to spy on and incriminate me?
Hang on that's not funny after all.
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UK?
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Come the day this is implemented i will continuously use TOR to surf the interwebs. This government has proven time & time again that they consider themselves to be unaccountable to the general public.
My main concern is that it is only matter of time before these measures are implemented not only here, but the EU and further afield. Look at retrospective Telco immunity that the USA has and that Obama himself voted for. The "transparency within government" bill has died.
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/09/imp_hold/
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Fortunately both the main opposition parties are against this development and, assuming they keep their word, they would vote against it. By the time this actually comes before parliament it will be after the next General Election, hopefully the current labour government will have been thrown out and the new Conservative government will dump it.
In the meantime I'll start some research into anonymous browsing just in case.
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