Privacy? What Privacy?

[KardioKate]

I'm just gonna leave this here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745

[Tyrewrecker]

KardioKate said:

I'm just gonna leave this here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745

I was just about to start a thread saying the same.

[jas xjr]

call me cynical but believe this is already going on .hope i am wrong

[Tyrewrecker]

jas xjr said:

call me cynical but believe this is already going on .hope i am wrong

That's what I thought, they are just making it clearer perhaps.

[AndrewW-G]

I was hoping this was some sort of sick April fool’s joke!

Time to setup a proxy and encrypt all data traffic!


No doubt there will be some clown along shortly claiming that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear

[anonymous-user]

it's outrageous, interesting that the article says similar legislation was attempted by labour but not passed in the face of strong opposition from, erm, everyone including the tories.

clearly there is some bit of civil service apparatus that sees a big need for this legislation and is trying to get some government to get it through.

i wish they would fk off with this terrorism nonsense too - it's wearing a bit thin (and it was thin to start with).

[egor110]

Last year we we're in london and had some spare time and did a guided spy walk around central london.
The guide was saying now everyone uses email/mobile phones it's easier than ever to track people and the most secure way to communicate is a phone box picked at random.

[Mr_B]

AndrewW-G said:

I was hoping this was some sort of sick April fool’s joke!

Time to setup a proxy and encrypt all data traffic!


No doubt there will be some clown along shortly claiming that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear

Why do you think out of a country of 65 million people, a handful of people might target you ? You won't bother with a proxy and encrypt any data. You are winding yourself up.

[Crafty_]

From TFA:

"A new law - which may be announced in the forthcoming Queen's Speech in May - would not allow GCHQ to access the content of emails, calls or messages without a warrant."

Isn't that the case already ?

[chris watton]

Like screening mail to prisoners......

[speedy_thrills]

If this article is accurate your government appears to be turning your country into a police state.

As predicted by Fromm if humanity can't live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it'll probably turn to authoritarianism.

[AndrewW-G]

Mr_B said:

Why do you think out of a country of 65 million people, a handful of people might target you ?

What makes you think they wont

[anonymous-user]

Mr_B said:

Why do you think out of a country of 65 million people, a handful of people might target you ? You won't bother with a proxy and encrypt any data. You are winding yourself up.

the issue of who or what they target is irrelevant - the issue is whether they should be permitted to or not. it's a principle.

[VinceFox]

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[roachcoach]

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[anonymous-user]

Just came here to post the exact same thing. I too read carefully thinking "this must be an April fools...".

[supersingle]

chris watton said:

Like screening mail to prisoners......

Indeed.

Spy drones monitoring us 24/7 next.

[Mojocvh]

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[AndrewW-G]

supersingle said:

chris watton said:

Like screening mail to prisoners......

Indeed.

Spy drones monitoring us 24/7 next.

What like this sort of thing?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-15...

So, within 10 years, it's likely that all our comms will be intercepted and stored "for your own good", we'll have a "road funding and insurance compliance box" that will keep a track of where we drive to and how. As contactless becomes more and more mainstream, we'll have little need for cash, meaning all commercial transactions can be tracked, drones and CCTV to monitor what we do at home, refuse bins that log waste recycling.

All of which will mean that there is a good chance I'll end up writing my diary with a fountain pen, on the creamy lined paper of a notebook, whilst out of view of the cameras in the TV, whilst others eagerly await an update on the fighting for the Malabar front.

Whilst winky and the other traitors were in charge, I thought that they were using 1984, Brave new world and Fahrenheit 451 as management hand books, seemingly little has changed, other than the colour of the tie and the cut of the suit

[pointedstarman]

AndrewW-G said:

supersingle said:

chris watton said:

Like screening mail to prisoners......

Indeed.

Spy drones monitoring us 24/7 next.

What like this sort of thing?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-15...

So, within 10 years, it's likely that all our comms will be intercepted and stored "for your own good", we'll have a "road funding and insurance compliance box" that will keep a track of where we drive to and how. As contactless becomes more and more mainstream, we'll have little need for cash, meaning all commercial transactions can be tracked, drones and CCTV to monitor what we do at home, refuse bins that log waste recycling.

All of which will mean that there is a good chance I'll end up writing my diary with a fountain pen, on the creamy lined paper of a notebook, whilst out of view of the cameras in the TV, whilst others eagerly await an update on the fighting for the Malabar front.

Whilst winky and the other traitors were in charge, I thought that they were using 1984, Brave new world and Fahrenheit 451 as management hand books, seemingly little has changed, other than the colour of the tie and the cut of the suit

Let's face it. Much of this stuff is done at the behest of the Sir Humphreys of this world; suits behind the suits for whom election is a non issue. Tory, Labour or LibDem, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference who is the front man. Much of what happens gets done irrespective of the party in government.