I didn't realise the proposal by the Westminster government for personal web data to be stored comes into law on Monday. There have been few protests from UK politicians but of course, they will be exempt.
Mobile calls, emails and website visits of every person in Britain will be stored for a year under sweeping new powers which will, for the first time, place a legal duty on internet companies to store private information, including email traffic and website browsing histories.
This is a gross intrusion of my privacy and I'm not prepared to accept the argument that it is to protect public safety and national security. Inch by inch this government's plans to monitor everyone's communications are creeping into place. We need to speak out and stop this.
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Have u not heard of George Ornwell for some reason...1984...Big Brother's watching your panties...I'm afraid....! Has he, too, had early Erectile dysfunction like myself....and therefore you were saved by some divine intervention...!
Of course they're watching u sista and they will continue to do so as long as you're not sagging too much...if you know what I mean...
Listen...in my opinion...no matter the rhetoric we hear from all these beautiful politicians with self interest at heart...we're heading to World War III
Let me see your take on this one!!!!
Ah Baron, my take is that I'm glad I'm not younger because I'd be out on the street protesting - then of course getting arrested no doubt.
Don't speak about another war, there are far too many as it is.
Of course this is all part of the New Global or World Order. It's only a couple of years ago many said I was too cynical speaking about a New World Order and now it's all fitting nicely into place and we're so submissive we're just letting it happen.
All these laws and restrictions are very scary. Nevertheless, they take priority over our kids and our Country. The IMF is to be called in, The Save The Children Fund launches a UK fund on Monday, too. Still Labour and their cronies are OK.
I bet bloggers will be amongst the first targets to have their data pulled, as well.
Be a Refusenik! Join No 2 ID, sign any petition there is going, blog on, seek to sabotage databases by refusal or by providing misleading data...plenty of avenues of protest! It needs pushed up the agenda although the Liberty convention helped do that.
http://jess-the-dog.blogspot.com/2009/03/refuseniks-for-freedom.html
Thanks Jess. Surely there's some software that can halt my ISP number being read? Have read your post and you're right of course with the list. So many of these things have just crept up on us without me really taking notice. I expect that's what they were relying on, people being lazy.
I joined No To ID when it started. I'll hunt around for similar.
OldRightie, you said that the other day. I wonder if there's another free platform which can't be so easily pulled, for blogging I mean.
Mobile calls, emails and website visits of every person in Britain will be stored for a year under sweeping new powers which will, for the first time, place a legal duty on internet companies to store private information, including email traffic and website browsing histories.
Not quite and not yet. The directive is Directive 2006/24/EC and it requires that the destination, source and location of all telephone calls are logged and kept and that the names, log-on times and locations of all internet users are recorded.
As far as the internet goes it requires that:
1. your log-on and log-off times to connect to your ISP are recorded along with your IP address though if you've got a Broadband connection most people leave it on permanently anyway.
2. "The date and time of the log-in and log-off of the Internet e-mail service or Internet telephony service, based on a certain time zone;" is kept. I assume this means that Web-Mail providers will have to record when you log onto their services.
It also requires that your location is recorded so I assume this will be your home address or the address where you accessed a Wi-Fi connection in a cafe or an airport.
The recording of web-site browsing is not required in this directive but it may be in the plans for the Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) Big Brother isn't here yet but it's on the way.
DougtheDug , It is a step in the direction of the ever increasing snooping from Labour, your wrong, Big brotherr is already hear, CCTV, ID cards and not to mention we all ready have ANPR, so Big Brother is in our homes, our streets, our cars, our work place, next they will want CCTV cameras inside our bodies to keep an eye on our bacteria.
Subrosa,
I feel the same way...if I were younger, I'd take to the streets, protest and probably get arrested...but at least I wouldn't be just sitting there taking it lying down and saying Thank You...I enjoyed that.
What's goinf on now is an econmic warfare... China and the far East will get restless as unemployment rises there...The US lost 5 million jobs in the last 18 months, Europe, Scotland, The UK and the ROW is not faring all that well...Our collective Leaders are busy tapping each other on the back with signs of Narsisistic approval that only they can appreciate and seriously nothing much being done about anything except squandering trillions of non-existent $$$ , instead of building solid infra-structures so people in Scotland, Canada, The UK, US, Europe or wherever they may be can actually find a job and work.....so you figure out what the solution is going to end up being...I'm afraid, we're heading towards WW III
Thanks for the Dug. I took my information from the Independent so they have it wrong too. You say it's on its way and I expect it will be quietly put on the statute books within months.
Now now Spook and you're the one who thinks Google Street whatsit is great. It's just part of the process. Wonder how much google are getting from various governments?
Oh Baron you may well be right. The east v the west?
Does anyone know whether 'Track Me Not' from Mozilla is any good? The name implies that a user can't be tracked but is this true?
It stops you from being tracked by Google, not by the government. To stop the government tracking you, you have to use proxies or Tor, but the fact that you are using these will be grounds for further investigation if you are ever a suspect.
Thanks for that Tadsoft. Of course the government wouldn't be interested in knowing that people just don't want to be part of a giant database.
Like Oldrightie I think bloggers will be the first affected. Wish I knew how to blog without using google which could well pull the plug if sat on.
GV I don't have a clue. I'm sure some of my techy readers will answer though.
Just hack into some one else wireless connection......same as following a telephone line its just you are not at the other end.
Niko I'm never on the end of anything, always at the beginning.
May I welcome weefoldingbike, one of the forum from the better Scotsman days.
Brown is an arrogant shit,
See below
http://tinyurl.com/ctponw
"Brown is an arrogant shit,"
Faux Cu - you are far too kind.
Subrosa - why are no parties speaking out against, and demanding the repeal of these draconian policies?
Scunnert I have no idea. I know the SNP are (slightly) doing something but the main UK parties seem to be lying down and taking all this. Why? Don't ask me.
You've got me thinking I'll email David Cameron and Clegg to see what they have to say. Sounds like all the UK parties are quite happy because it doesn't affect MPs.
We in the blogsphere ought to be shouting far louder. The more posts the better.
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