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talkpoliticsUK anti-terror plan to sweep up email, phone, online records
"Data on all phone calls, text messages, email traffic and online visits would be stored for a year in vast databases under a new anti-terrorism plan in Britain, The Telegraph reported Saturday on its website.
The report, which did not cite sources, said that phone companies and broadband providers would be ordered to store the information themselves for a year for security services’ “real-time” inspection under the plan. Contents of phone calls, texts or emails would not be recorded, The Telegraph said, but the databases would retain the phone numbers and email addresses sent from and to.
And the plan would reach into social networking for the first time, The Telegraph reported, allowing security services to get information about direct messages between users of Facebook, Twitter and similar sites, and even between players in online video games."
First reaction: So they want to be like Google but just be allowed to sniff around legally, eh? ;)
Second reaction... Doesn't that seem a "little" over board, I mean allowing the government to have access to such sort of info without a warrant? And we might not be talking only about governments. Because they obviously won't have enough staff to deal with all that data, so there's a real risk that they'd be quite willing to extend the processing to some 3rd party, a private one, why not? /tinfoil hat!/
Because it hasn't already been considered before in the UK?
Private security firm could run uk police station
Yeah, I'm sure at least some among those smart-heads must realize that *real* terrorists would still always be able to find ways around all these security measures? And again, the only people ultimately suffering from such a policy would be... guess who? the ordinary people. What a surprise.
Besides, like with most (all?) internet laws, I suspect those who devised this crap don't actually know shit about the way the internet works. If someone can easily build a bomb, they'd surely know how to go over to the likes of torproject.org and cover their tracks pretty effectively in about 1 minute. Huh?
"Data on all phone calls, text messages, email traffic and online visits would be stored for a year in vast databases under a new anti-terrorism plan in Britain, The Telegraph reported Saturday on its website.
The report, which did not cite sources, said that phone companies and broadband providers would be ordered to store the information themselves for a year for security services’ “real-time” inspection under the plan. Contents of phone calls, texts or emails would not be recorded, The Telegraph said, but the databases would retain the phone numbers and email addresses sent from and to.
And the plan would reach into social networking for the first time, The Telegraph reported, allowing security services to get information about direct messages between users of Facebook, Twitter and similar sites, and even between players in online video games."
First reaction: So they want to be like Google but just be allowed to sniff around legally, eh? ;)
Second reaction... Doesn't that seem a "little" over board, I mean allowing the government to have access to such sort of info without a warrant? And we might not be talking only about governments. Because they obviously won't have enough staff to deal with all that data, so there's a real risk that they'd be quite willing to extend the processing to some 3rd party, a private one, why not? /tinfoil hat!/
Because it hasn't already been considered before in the UK?
Private security firm could run uk police station
Yeah, I'm sure at least some among those smart-heads must realize that *real* terrorists would still always be able to find ways around all these security measures? And again, the only people ultimately suffering from such a policy would be... guess who? the ordinary people. What a surprise.
Besides, like with most (all?) internet laws, I suspect those who devised this crap don't actually know shit about the way the internet works. If someone can easily build a bomb, they'd surely know how to go over to the likes of torproject.org and cover their tracks pretty effectively in about 1 minute. Huh?
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Date: 21/2/12 20:47 (UTC)