I Don't Like Mondays

philip2009 · 5 Apr 2009 at 02:07

The mobile calls, emails and website visits of every person in Britain will be stored for a year under sweeping new powers which come into force on Monday. Privacy campaigners warned last night that the information would be used by the Government to create a giant "Big Brother" super-database containing a map of everyone's private life.

The new powers will, for the first time, place a legal duty on internet companies to store private information, including email traffic and website browsing histories.

Although the new retention powers will not permit the storage of the content of emails or phone calls it will show details such as IP addresses, date, time and user telephone numbers. Under the terms of the EU directive, the Home Office has written to leading internet service providers and phone companies offering to compensate them for the costs incurred in retaining the data for a year.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...web-data-to-be-stored-for-a-year-1662237.html

Time to fire up the VPNs ... :mad:

DJMK4 · 5 Apr 2009 at 02:09

No way

V4NT0M · 5 Apr 2009 at 02:12

I thought they did this anyway.

philip2009 · 5 Apr 2009 at 02:17

Skyfall said:
I thought they did this anyway.

No, not to anything like the same degree as far as web history is concerned - data retention

N9ne · 5 Apr 2009 at 02:18

Time to buy shares in hard drive manufacturers methinks

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doofer · 5 Apr 2009 at 02:28

They'll only lose it all after a few Months anyway. I wonder when CCTV in every home is coming, can't be far off now...

Rroff · 5 Apr 2009 at 02:29

Time for everyone to go mad visting 100s of sites a minute

SiD the Turtle · 5 Apr 2009 at 02:33

Hmmm, I suggest we set up a folding@home type app that just cycles through the entire IP range, just to annoy the authorities.

What annoys me the most is not what they're doing (I'm not surprised, coming from our government), but that this has slipped through without a peep from the so called opposition.

int · 5 Apr 2009 at 02:35

SiD the Turtle said:
Hmmm, I suggest we set up a folding@home type app that just cycles through the entire IP range, just to annoy the authorities.

What annoys me the most is not what they're doing (I'm not surprised, coming from our government), but that this has slipped through without a peep from the so called opposition.

And slipped through without any noticeable complaints from the citizens of this country.

SiD the Turtle · 5 Apr 2009 at 02:36

int said:
And slipped through without any noticeable complaints from the citizens of this country.

I'm always complaining

Strife212 · 5 Apr 2009 at 02:36

o noes

int · 5 Apr 2009 at 02:47

SiD the Turtle said:
I'm always complaining

Be noticeable :mad:

Gackt · 5 Apr 2009 at 03:15

int said:
Be noticeable

All the noticable ones were down in London smashing the windows of banks and getting annoyed when police pushed them back. :rolleyes:

fail at the internets · 5 Apr 2009 at 03:19

Fools in power...

Pixel · 5 Apr 2009 at 03:36

Time after time we see our privacy eroded, law by law.

EdGey · 5 Apr 2009 at 07:03

lame.

pause........and sigh

Dolph · 5 Apr 2009 at 08:03

It's Labour, they've been doing this ever since they are in power, the more information the state has, the easier it is to control and threaten the populace.

They keep doing it no matter how many people object, how many times they are told it's pointless, or how many times they are warned that it's probably illegal.

The only thing that surprises me these days is that some people still defend them. They've managed to condition most of the country that complaining is pointless and will just lead to arrests, or simply be blindly ignored (even when those complaints come from the house of lords, or the EHCHR). This sort of thing is further evidence of why we need strict constitutional control on government behaviour and strictly defined rights that cannot be overriden.

fiveub · 5 Apr 2009 at 08:11

What good is to come from this?

wozzizname · 5 Apr 2009 at 08:30

What next - open all our mail and scan it before it's forwarded to us ? Get the police to follow random individuals around 'just in case' they are up to no good ?
I'm not normally of the tin-foil-hat wearing persuasion, but this intrusion into all our lives is simply going way too far.

Meridian · 5 Apr 2009 at 10:00

Dolph said:
It's government, they've been doing this ever since they are in power, the more information the state has, the easier it is to control and threaten the populace.

Fixed for you. If you think the Tories are against this - no matter what they might say to get elected - then think through it a bit better. It's the nature of politicians that they want to control people: it's why they went into politics. This is a group of people who not only think that their opinion is more important that yours (that's just SC) but that you should be bound by law to follow their opinion. They think they know better than you, and that you need all this for your own protection. Even libertarians always find at least one group to apply this rule to.

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