UK Plans More Spying On Internet Users Under 'Terrorism' Pretext

Wowsers writes "In vogue with other countries cracking down on freedom and democracy on the internet as discussed in Slashdot recently, the UK is joining in with plans to track all phone calls, text messages, email traffic and websites visited online, all to be stored in vast databases under new government anti-terror plans. As reported in The Telegraph, security services will have access to information about who has been communicating with each other on social networking sites such as Facebook, direct messages between subscribers on Twitter would also be stored, as well as communications between players in online video games. The scheme is a revised version of a plan drawn up by the ex-Labour government which would have created a central database of all the information. The idea was later dropped in favor of requiring communications providers to store the details at the taxpayers' expense."

Well I'm safe...

[naota-kun]

Good luck chronicling all my drunken ramblings on cocktail napkins. Every scandalous thing I've ever put to form is blotted and smeared with spirits. Even I can't decipher the subversion.

Re:Trolling campaign by GreatBunzinni, aka Rui Mac

[anotherzeb]

With this kind of information, are you applying for a job that might be created by the surveillance system described in tfa?

Re:Dont they all do this?

[mehrotra.akash]

I wonder why the TSA has a /. account

News Flash! Britain sinks under server farms

[kawabago]

Just in from the North Sea. Britain has finally sunk under the weight of the vast server farms storing every malicious keystroke of the beleaguered populace. This was the final stroke as the cost of analysis of the vast data store had finally exceeded GDP. It is expected that any terrorists perished with everyone else.

Re:Dont they all do this?

[tsa]

I've had this account since 1997 or so, waaaayyyy before the TSA even existed.

Re:balls to it

[mwvdlee]

against my personal interests [...] Ended up in Jamaica

Hm, I wonder what those interests were. ;)

Re:Finally!

[eneville]

1984 was about the Thought Police. I don't see any thought on facebook or twitter.

Re:Dont they all do this?

[TheRaven64]

Fortunately for the UK, we have an active resistance group that goes by the initials EDS. Their typical modus operandi for thwarting this kind of attack on our freedoms is to bribe or mislead civil servants to be awarded the contract for delivering the system, and then to delay and delay, while pushing the budget up, until another government takes power. The new government then blames the cost overruns on the previous one and cancels the project.

Re:Finally!

[The Askylist]

Brecht had it about right - it's a pity we still aren't listening.

After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?