All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where, as well as the websites they have visited.
Despite widespread opposition to the increasing amount of surveillance in Britain, 653 public bodies will be given access to the information, including police, local councils, the Financial Services Authority, the ambulance service, fire authorities and even prison governors.
They will not require the permission of a judge or a magistrate to obtain the information, but simply the authorisation of a senior police officer or the equivalent of a deputy head of department at a local authority.
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It’s time to revert to more conventional methods of communication for all your terrorist needs… postal mail, courier, tête-à-tête over a romantic dinner….
It is almost time to revert to speaking to politicians with black powder.
The terrorists have already won.
I am glad that I am no longer in that big brother state. However, how long will it be before other countries follow their lead?
Take a stand!
btw: wouldn’t tor get around much of this?
+1 (#1 #2 #3), but I see business opportunities here. A proxy program which will visit websites for you. Kazillions of times, but random sites in random order for random amounts of time. Offshore email hosts will get a boost. Offshore proxy hosts will also get a boost.
For those that understand the AMOUNT of data this will become.
Its impossible.
You can gather all the info you wish, even using computers to HOLD all that data will take TONS of space and man hours to keep it together.
remember the FIRST time you got the internet, and ALL the sites and places you wondered? After a time, you selected/found the sites you liked most and you bounce around them MOST now.
Iv got links to over 2000 sites.
I search the net for OTHER people to find things and goods, drivers and hardware.
The CIA TRIED to do this at one time. Sifting threw the net with certain words and phrases. They FILLED 1 room 4 foot deep in DATA. UNSORTED..
The only difference here is that you are REQUIRING the ISP (ISP in england ISNT like the USA, I think there are less then 6) to hold all the data, rather then storing it in 1 central location.
THEN requiring the Telco(2-3?? in england) to record the numbers of LOCAL calls?? NOt just long distance?? Anyone ever had a TEEN calling all their friends??
The NEXt new feature will be that ALL cars have a GPS..
#5
CORRECT..
Is it right to force people to be CROOKS, just to have privacy?
How about BLOG entries?
Every time I reply here I am feeling more and more ‘nervous’.
I think this will be the last one…
Bye Folks!
Don’t they need all this information for billing anyway?
Billing by the minute…
@#9 Not billing… Just a proper way for Govt. to supervise that NetNeutrality is not violated…
#6 – All new cars do have GPS and you have a RFID chip in all credit cards and state and fed documents and currency. Soon we’ll get a chip planted in us at birth.
It doesn’t really matter, we don’t even use the so-called freedoms we have now. By the time everyone knows that everything we do is being tracked, no one will care…
One begins to understand Guy Fawkes a bit better…
What killer duck #3 said.
Stick a fork in us, we’re done.
It’s an English thing. Not so much paranoia as insecurity. It comes from centuries surrounded by the French, Spanish, Germans, Irish and Scots. Leave them alone, the English will calm down.
#3
-Stick a fork in us, we’re done.
What a bunch of wussies.
Lock and load… send a message even tyrants can understand.
Knowledge is power. The internet has temporarily shifted the balance of power to the group of (anyone who can afford internet connectivity) and the transnational corporations and their minions, government agencies, and certain trade groups (e.g. **AA) are exploring means to reclaim the majority of that power and the economic and mindshare control that comes with it.
#15, the technology of revolutions past (guns in the hands of the masses) is powerless in the 21st century. But by all means give it a shot if it makes you feel better.
#11,
Jim,
and the TIME to do something is NOW, rather then later.
If everyone would Exert their rights, they WILL back down.
as the RIGHT to shut up, when a COP wishes to talk to you.
AS the RIGHT to ask the cop, IF you arent under arrest, Why are you cuffed and being taken away.
AS is your right to ASK/request ANY person to leave your home, at any time.
The problem we have is WE DONT KNOW OUR RIGHTS.
Only way to USE your rights, NOW..
Is to record EVERYTHING..
Personal recorder.
CAR recorder.
WORK recorder.
WOW, sounds like we are back to recording OURSELVES.
I agree to let you RECORD my actions, IF’ you record the GOVERNMENTS and those responsible for RECORDING ME. INSIDE and out.
THEN make it public. ALL of it.
For you types in Britain, Is the local council the equivalent or our city councils here in the ole US of A? Because if so, that’s a scary prospect.
#16-Winston-the technology of revolutions past (guns in the hands of the masses) is powerless in the 21st century.
If I read you correctly you are saying that in the 21st century fighting back using force is no longer practical.
I would be interested to hear exactly how you believe tyrants should be eliminated and freedom restored… or is slavery the only option?
Screw Making it public. It’ll be a perfect stalking tool. Not to mention all the pervs using it to watch schools.
Government sponsored insider trading! YAYYYY!
Want to know how a second american revolution would work out?
http://xkcd.com/652/
Bout like that. Have fun with your shotgun!
Did anyone else click through to the article and read it?
The article says it hasn’t been brought before Parliament yet.
As #6 notes, (from the article) “Meanwhile the communications providers themselves questioned the cost of the scheme and whether it was even technically feasible.”
And while Jacqui Smith et. al. say they will push the legislation through, it seems there is more than insignificant opposition.
“more than insignificant opposition.”
reword??
more then significant opposition.
21,
Thats the BEST PART..
you can TRACK BACK who is watching, and KNOW who the pervs are, and WHO is stalking you.
@me,
Yes it’s the local city council!
There was a law introduced a few years ago ‘RIPA’ to allow the authorities to get this type of information.
It was vitally needed to fight terrorism, not the normal IRA bombing kind of terrorism we have managed to live with for 30years – but modern scary cyber terrorism.
It was then immediately used by the local council to track people pretending to live at a different address to get their kids into a better school, people putting their trash out on the wrong day and terrorist dog walkers in the park
Time to put out a program that causes all computers to incessantly google “Bomb Making Techniques,” “Her Majesty Naked,” “John Dvorak’s Sex Crimes Against Parliament” and so on.
You know. Just to give them something to do.
This kind of surveillance will be used for 1% good and 99% evil.