A million pounds of surveillance 1
The UK learns about the cost of making sure law enforcement can snoop on internet access, something the U.S. public already learned when Congress spent $500 million dollars on making sure the FBI could snoop on us. In this ZDnet UK article, the cost of police access (in both cash and privacy) is discussed. The police intend to eavesdrop on one in every five hundred internet calls - Demon Internet projects that the cost of hooking up this access to be around a million pounds per year. See also another ZDnet article which summarizes the current state of surveillance in the UK. -- michael
Prices (Score:2)
is the price of repression eternal surveillance?
- The Boston Lunatic