UK Government To Demand Data On Every Call, Email, and Tweet 199
judgecorp writes "The UK government is proposing a law that would require phone and Internet companies to store information on all communications, and hand it to the security services when required. The Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) abandoned by the last government is back on the table, proposed as a means to increase security, and likely to be pushed through before the Olympics in London, according to reports."
Not a dupe! (Score:5, Informative)
If you're referring to this [slashdot.org], it's not in fact a dupe, because the other story is about the Canadians trying to do exactly the same thing as the UK is doing here,
Re:Not a dupe! (Score:5, Informative)
It's a dupe, it was on the front page on Sunday
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/19/034209/uk-plans-more-spying-on-internet-users-under-terrorism-pretext [slashdot.org]
Re:Thank you (Score:3, Informative)
How will you know that you've succeeded in overwhelming them?
How will you stop the bastards from stealing an ever-increasing portion of your income in order to upgrade their surveillance infrastructure to cope with the traffic?
How will this deter unscrupulous, complicit telecomms vendors from creating increasingly efficient and intrusive forms of spy gear to meet the demand?
Technological workarounds -- Tor, PGP, and all the rest -- are important, but they're only stopgaps. This needs to be stopped at its source.
Not to distract you from implementing and deploying your clever flooding plan or anything, but please at least sign the petition too.
Re:Thank you (Score:5, Informative)
Re:time to start encrypting everything (Score:4, Informative)
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The prevalence of *, (, o, i, and j indicate that you are right handed. The proximity of £, @, and #' indicate and American keyboard setup.
Either way, this isn't encrypted text, and can be rejected as worthy of analysis.
Re:Thank you (Score:4, Informative)
You're describing the situation in Argentina. Our government is doing many of the points you mention (8: war on grupo clarin, 1: nation-wide HDTV and fiber optics internet, 9: forcing importers to export in a 1:1 ratio)
they also closed down all private retirement funds overnight. it's all state-owned now.
it's not going so well... a lot of stuff is already missing. brazil (our main trading partner) is getting upset. you need authorization to import anything.
we're doing some other things too, like compulsive re-issue of all national documents (with biometrics like fingerprint and photo stored online). "electronic" receipts with an copy going in real-time to the tax collecting agency (AFIP), which also has access to all bank accounts...