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From the piece: Local authorities are to be given the power to access all the details of everyone’s personal text messages, emails, phone calls, and internet use under Home Office proposals published yesterday. Ministers want to make it mandatory for telephone and internet companies to keep details of all personal internet traffic for at least 12 months so it can be accessed for investigations into crime or other threats to public safety.

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Welcome to 1984, and it looks like it's here to stay. Irrespective of the supposed 'security' such measures will bring, I did not ask for, nor do I want, such intrusion into my life. picked by generaldecay 3 months ago

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7	loonytoo...

3 months ago

Given the recent incidents where information about people has been found just laying around in public places or simply going missing makes it an even scarier thought. The whole terrorism excuse is getting old now and why would someone in Germany or France need to know that I told my girlfriend I was running late . I guess that must mean I'm off planting an explosion somewhere.

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2	generald...

3 months ago

Exactly! I'm starting to feel that it's less about terrorism and more about constant and paranoid surveillance of everyone. There's the old saying that's along the lines: 'If you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to fear'. But it's not about that for me. Yes, I'm doing nothing wrong so, no, I have nothing to fear. But I still don't want my every move recorded.

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12	fentwin

3 months ago

« generaldecay:..... 'If you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to fear'. But it's not about that for me. Yes, I'm doing nothing wrong so, no, I have nothing to fear. But I still don't want my every move recorded.

And what if it is eventually "determined" that whatever you are doing, it is wrong. Just because something is legal today (free speech, travel, thumb twiddling, etc.) doesn't mean BB won't consider it subversive tomorrow.

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3	generald...

3 months ago

« fentwin : And what if it is eventually "determined" that whatever you are doing, it is wrong.

Yeah, really! It's always possible to move those goalposts and blur those lines in the name of 'security'.

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18	topofall

3 months ago

..a billion incidents of data a DAY! Need a bloody great army of civil servant snoopers to go through that lot to identify crime!

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3	generald...

3 months ago

« topofall : ..a billion incidents of data a DAY! Need a bloody great army of civil servant snoopers to go through that lot to identify crime!

HA! Yes, really! A few million should do!

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10	Kevertje

3 months ago

If this kind of thing ever comes to pass in Belgium, these are my answers:

- Tor: for anonymous browsing without your ISP being able to see what sites you visit.
- PGP or GPG for e-mail encryption so they can't read my mails
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- TrueCrypt to make sure they can't read the files I don't want them to read.

Be aware though that there's a law in the UK that says you have to hand over your passwords to the authorities in certain cases. Your mails might not be completely safe in that case.

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3	generald...

3 months ago

« Kevertje : Be aware though that there's a law in the UK that says you have to hand over your passwords to the authorities in certain cases. Your mails might not be completely safe in that case.

I confess I'm a little techno-innocent so I didn't know about any of those things.

Nor did I know about that law in the UK, so thanks for that. I'm sure MI5/6 would find my emails very boring, though!

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14	meggysue

3 months ago

1984 a few years late...

Modern technology makes our lives easier in some ways, ensnares us in others. Hopefully these tools will be used for good and not for evil.... but reality may be very different as we catapault into unknown times.

Living in the boonies isolated from the world sounds better all the time.

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