Email and web use 'to be monitored' under new laws

[Greybeard]

The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon.

Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access to communications on demand, in real time.

The Home Office says the move is key to tackling crime and terrorism, but civil liberties groups have criticised it.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745

Chris

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[Greybeard]

And theres more

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/%E2%80...september-2013

chris

[Anchor]

I suspect they are trying to liberalize/legalise something they have been doing for some time.

So doing it is not the the real reason for this law.

What this law is, is going to be a declaration that they are doing it - and is an attempt to be a kind of chilling effect on the internet.

Rather like how some people are asking to temporarily "friend" HR officers at companies where they are applying for prospective employment, so the HR people can check them out...

Alternative theory - law fails, and gives people the feeling that they have privacy on line in an attempt to lower the guards they may have.

For me and some of us - it changes nothing.

We knew we had no privacy

and

We didn't care.

[Limited Edition]

They will also be installing eye-tracking devices that can read your thoughts.

Apple has already filed a patent for a 3-D eye-tracking user interface for use in iPhones and iPads. And the European company Senseye plans on installing eye-tracking software in smartphones next year.

Slate reports:

?This information will be collected, analyzed and resold to hundreds of companies?advertisers, data analytics providers, and others?across the digital ecosystem in what the industry calls the ?mobile marketing value chain.? In theory, they will be anonymous, ?nonpersonal? data. But, in practice, the anonymity will be easy to penetrate.?

Of course, there are privacy concerns. By now, we?re all too familiar with companies collecting data without our consent. Facebook, Google and Twitter have all done it. But there never seemed to be any dire repercussions for those transgressions.

Slate?s John Villasenor says: ?Today, when we read something online, our thoughts are still our own. We should enjoy it while it lasts.?
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smar...e_skin;content

[InCiDeR]

The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon.

Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access to communications on demand, in real time.

The Home Office says the move is key to tackling crime and terrorism, but civil liberties groups have criticised it.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745

Chris

And what made you believe they not already doing this... the only difference is it is now official

[Gardener]

Well the law has to get through commons first and then has to get through lords and last time they try, it was thrown out with a lot of noise from lords.

So we see what happens, hmm when labour try it, tory lot boo'ed it out, now they try it for themselves.
What I noticed though was the intensification of privacy violation ideas (both US and here) since the PM met obama for 19 gun salute. What are they cooking up I wonder.

We are watching you too

[VajraYaya]

Ya know.. Here is the skeptic in me asking an important question...

What is the date on these articles??

[Going by]

The article is from this month and worth reading.

[VajraYaya]

Yes.. This month as in April First.. It is an interesting day to find them posted. It makes me question..

[Going by]

I had not thought of April 1st, the article is dated march 17, but why putting it up now?

[VajraYaya]

The date on the BBC article is April 1st.. I didn't look at the date on the ZeroHedge article.

I have no doubt that TPTB have been monitoring all email, phone calls and web traffic for some time. It just seems that in the article posted on the BBC that they now seem to be strangely blatantly admitting to it when they have tried to hide it for so long. Which all really makes it seem strange to me that the BBC, a mainstream news outlet as opposed to ZeroHedge that is an Alt media outlet, is posting this on April Fools day, on a Sunday.

I find it really curious. Will they claim tomorrow that the story is an April Fools joke and thus ridicule anybody who talks about this idea or refers to this article in the future and thus be immediately be dismissed as a tinfoil hat wearing loon because the BBC admitted the article was a hoax? Or does putting this story out on April first even if no prank is admitted, allow the article and it's idea to be dismissed becasue of the date it appeared?

These are the kinds of things that it has made me think of. The whole thing just smells funny to me.. Not the information in the article but just these other issues and what it may mean.. Anyway..

[Jenci]

The same story published today, 2nd April.

http://news.sky.com/home/politics/article/16200792


Jeanette