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From Monday, all your emails, web browsing history and mobile calls will be stored for a year due to sweeping new laws making Britain a proper kleptocracy, by order of the EU.
(On 15 March 2006 the European Union formally adopted Directive 2006/24/EC, on “the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC”)
Your web browsing will be stored from your ISP. The Government will force you to have it all revealed to them from your ISP, IP addresses the works.
Story in the Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/personal-web-data-to-be-stored-for-a-year-1662237.html
As a personal protest, I have created the following email signature, which will be added to each and every email that I send. I see this as a completely responsible act, one which does not break the law, but none-the-less an act of defiance, an act of rebellion against those who would take away my right to privacy, supposedly guaranteed by the European Charter of Human Rights, one which I hope will make those who draft such inept laws pay attention.
The following is a disclaimer and a protest at the collection, retention and sharing of my personal mail by the morally bankrupt state.
By adding a string of key words, it will guarantee that each and every mail that I send will now need to be manually viewed as it is picked up by the auto scan software. If every person in the UK does exactly the same, then the entire system will quickly become so unmanageable, so unwieldy that it will become unworkable.
My key words are: bomb, assassinate, president, brown, Osama, Obama, Sargozy, Merkel, government, target, location, rocket, grenade, al-Qaeda, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, UK, America, guns, jets, bombs, machine-gun, terrorists, MP’s, pigs, troughs, France, Germany, Italy, nuclear, Korea.
@quiet_man wrote:
From Monday, all your emails, web browsing history and mobile calls will be stored for a year due to sweeping new laws making Britain a proper kleptocracy, by order of the EU.
(On 15 March 2006 the European Union formally adopted Directive 2006/24/EC, on “the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC”)
Your web browsing will be stored from your ISP. The Government will force you to have it all revealed to them from your ISP, IP addresses the works.
Story in the Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/personal-web-data-to-be-stored-for-a-year-1662237.html
As a personal protest, I have created the following email signature, which will be added to each and every email that I send. I see this as a completely responsible act, one which does not break the law, but none-the-less an act of defiance, an act of rebellion against those who would take away my right to privacy, supposedly guaranteed by the European Charter of Human Rights, one which I hope will make those who draft such inept laws pay attention.
The following is a disclaimer and a protest at the collection, retention and sharing of my personal mail by the morally bankrupt state.
By adding a string of key words, it will guarantee that each and every mail that I send will now need to be manually viewed as it is picked up by the auto scan software. If every person in the UK does exactly the same, then the entire system will quickly become so unmanageable, so unwieldy that it will become unworkable.
My key words are: bomb, assassinate, president, brown, Osama, Obama, Sargozy, Merkel, government, target, location, rocket, grenade, al-Qaeda, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, UK, America, guns, jets, bombs, machine-gun, terrorists, MP’s, pigs, troughs, France, Germany, Italy, nuclear, Korea.
Well Done to the Government, who can’t even be trusted with our personal details without losing them..
Why don’t they just put CCTV in our homes, and give us all our own personal guard who can check on us 24-7.
If you do nowt wrong what ya gotta worry about
my sentiments exactly pete :)
@pete wrote:
If you do nowt wrong what ya gotta worry about
Who decides what’s wrong? The government? The courts?
The problem with this sort of legislation is that it usually ends up being used for purposes its legislators didn’t imagine like the RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act ) act. Which was brought in to combat terrorism yet got used by local councils to spy on parents they thought might be sending their kids to a school outside their cachement area, as well as dog fouling and littering. It allows for The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, The Food Standards Agency, The Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce, The Post Office and the NHS to spy on you if they want too.
So…………………… it might be ok for you to believe that if you do “nowt” wrong you have nothing to worry about, but the evidence doesn’t seem to back you up when it comes down to what the government actually does.
@quiet_man wrote:
@pete wrote:
If you do nowt wrong what ya gotta worry about
Who decides what’s wrong? The government? The courts?
The problem with this sort of legislation is that it usually ends up being used for purposes its legislators didn’t imagine like the RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act ) act. Which was brought in to combat terrorism yet got used by local councils to spy on parents they thought might be sending their kids to a school outside their cachement area, as well as dog fouling and littering. It allows for The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, The Food Standards Agency, The Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce, The Post Office and the NHS to spy on you if they want too.
So…………………… it might be ok for you to believe that if you do “nowt” wrong you have nothing to worry about, but the evidence doesn’t seem to back you up when it comes down to what the government actually does.
Yes … but the things you quote are WRONG! and the people doing them are breaking the law.
Claiming that you live at an address close to an over-subscribed school, in order to get a placing for your child to which you aren’t entitled, is WRONG. By lying on the application form (providing a false address or wrongly using somebody else’s address) unfairly deprives another child of a place to which they are entitled and is WRONG.
Permitting a dog under your control to sh1t on a pavement where other have to walk is WRONG. Why on earth do people think they have the God given right to act irresponsibly and then moan when a Local Authority seeks to find them and punish them for what is a totally anti-social act???
The plain fact is that IF you comply with the law, then you have no need to fear that your e-mails may be stored and accessed. IF you are a criminal or a terrorist then you should fear “RIPA” and maybe not use e-mails and the like to organise killings of others.
They could put cctv in my house for all i care (they would soon get bored and swtich off), I have absolutely zero to hide. I say bring on the id card (so long as ppl cannot use it to defraud me) if it means we have a more secure society. Let them watch us day and night if it stops some radical lunatic killing innocents on a train…. and so on…
Same here Melody. I couldn,t give a monkeys backside if people want to monitor my emails. Nothing exciting in em. And I agree with ID cards. Whats the big deal? We had em during the war and no one cared. Don,t know why people make such a fuss. If you,ve got nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.
If you live in a Democratic society you should be entitled to a certain degree of privacy.
These type of things are a slippery slope, and having the data kept for extended periods of time means it can easily be compromised as was proven by the AOL search engine data fiasco a few years ago. Since then companies like Google and Yahoo have slashed their retention times to the minimum.
No, I’ve got nothing to hide, but I really dont want someone poking through my e-mail’s and poking through the Websites I visit even if it is to catch criminals.
It’s also worth noting that a smart criminal is certainly gonna be anonymizing themselves on the net anyway.
@Bad Manners wrote:
If you live in a Democratic society you should be entitled to a certain degree of privacy.
These type of things are a slippery slope, and having the data kept for extended periods of time means it can easily be compromised as was proven by the AOL search engine data fiasco a few years ago. Since then companies like Google and Yahoo have slashed their retention times to the minimum.
No, I’ve got nothing to hide, but I really dont want someone poking through my e-mail’s and poking through the Websites I visit even if it is to catch criminals.
It’s also worth noting that a smart criminal is certainly gonna be anonymizing themselves on the net anyway.
At Last, someone who agrees with me to a certain extent..
Yes, i’m all for it, i’ve nothing to hide, but we all have a right to Privacy aswell.. Yes, i can see the good points to all of this, but i can see the bad too..
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