The Independent reports:
Ministers cancel 'Big Brother' database
Plan to store details of every phone call and email 'kicked into long grass' after furore
The Telegraph reports:
State to 'spy' on every phone call, email and web search
Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies.
The headlines appear to be telling different stories, however, they merge in the stories when it comes to a delay in legislating to bring in this Big Brother power.
I thought that the public is the master and the government the servant? Here we have the servant's desire to spy on the master, and the so-called justification is weaker than a wet teabag. Moreover, to protect the public the government is intent on stripping away any right to privacy. This is clearly a violation. To add insult to injury, the government intends taxing the public to the tune of £2billion which it will pay to the private sector to spy on the public.
Oops...how The Telegraph got it wrong
l encrypt virtually everything just for the hell of it. They can intercept them as much as they want .... and l hope they spend eons trying to read them.
ReplyDeleteYou can get sim cards for pennies nowadays so l hope everyone starts doing this ... and not registering them. Keep your contract phone by all means but this sim card approach is another way to drive them crazy.
The whole thing is a bloody farce
.... and anyway the Gov does not have a good track record on IT ... they usually cost billions and don't work!
Lets hope they get lost in the long grass!
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