Backlash over plans to monitor all internet use

[lfc4life]

Home Secretary hit by parliamentary backlash over scheme to extend powers to monitor emails

Theresa May faced criticism from across the political spectrum
and from civil liberties groups yesterday over her plans to give
police and security services the power to monitor the email traffic
and internet use of every person in Britain.

The Information Commissioner Christopher Graham, who has previously made clear he does not believe such plans are justified - warned the Home Secretary that he would press for safeguards to protect privacy.

Amid criticism that the scheme runs counter to Tory and Liberal Democrat pre-election opposition to the "Big Brother" scheme, Ms May has been summoned before MPs to justify her proposals. Under legislation in next month's Queen's Speech, law enforcement agencies will gain extra powers to access information about contacts through Skype and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Internet companies will also reportedly be told to install hardware allowing GCHQ to examine "on demand" any phone call made, text message or email sent and website accessed, in "real time" and without a warrant. Similar proposals were abandoned in 2009 by the Labour government.

Downing Street said yesterday that any moves would cover details of when messages were sent and who the recipients were, but stressed it would not include the contents of calls and emails. The Prime Minister's spokesman also said the plans would be "consistent" with his commitment to civil liberties.

Read more here .... Backlash over plans to monitor all internet use - UK Politics - UK - The Independent

This shouldnt be allowed to happen ... its just wrong what next we going to be micro chipped ????

[03ahmads]

who exactly do they think they are?! The idea of this enrages me

[Meat-Head]

so does that mean the internet companys put the price up to pay for the extra storage space?

[aleister crowley]

A GOVERNMENT that can barely send an email has unveiled somewhat ambitious plans to rule the web with an iron fist.
Bolstered by successfully bungling an imaginary fuel crisis and impressively failing to deliver a hot snack reference, the coalition feels it is ready to exert total control over an enormously complicated and abstract network of lightning-fast electronic information.

Prime minister David Cameron, who still uses an AOL email account, said: "The internet is just a bunch of computers connected with wire, like a slightly more elaborate version of those baked-bean-can-and-string pretend telephones we used to make as kids. "So spying on pretty much everything that happens on it will be a piece of piss."

Civil rights campaigner Nikki Hollis said: "On the one hand, it's deeply worrying that the government is seeking to create a surveillance culture that encompasses spying on all digital media.

"On the other, that same government would struggle to arrange a children's party if provided with a clown, a bouncy castle, some children and an unlimited supply of jelly.

"So it's hard to say whether we should be worried or mildly amused."

Home Secretary Theresa May said: "I have a total understanding of the internet. I've actually got it on my computer.

"Well, not the actual one in my office, but the shared computer in the meeting room we use to play games at lunchtime."

May further defended the plans by barking the new government slogan 'Paedo 9/11' in response to questions and has commissioned a children?s cartoon where ?Blinky? the security eye helps people find lost car keys in a bid to make it less terrifying,

May added: ?It?s a well known fact that anybody planning to do something unspeakable, either with a bomb or their own penis, will chat about it at length with lots of other people using their own home computer and phone.

"Paedo 9/11.?

[skegsagypsy]

Smokescreen imho, they already have these powers and have been using them for years!

[Meat-Head]

OK, so that footballer, sorry, the who whent off-line on the football field.

Well in the news, somebody has been took off-line and put in clink for 56 days for saying naughty things about him on twatter

So, did other people report him, or did the fuzz pick it up?

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/f86/caution-twitter-urged-britons-barred-us-253177/

[skegsagypsy]

And the chap who said on Twitter he was gonna make a mess of Florida, deported at the airport !

[Meat-Head]

And the chap who said on Twitter he was gonna make a mess of Florida, deported at the airport !

*CONFUSED*

Same above link, or another guy?

[skegsagypsy]

Same guy maybe

[GastonJ]

Does anyone really think that their internet communications isn't being monitored already?

[masur123]

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=pass_sopa

This guy sums it all up about the masses will to resist any of this shite

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=pass_sopa

[aleister crowley]

According to Cambridge University security researcher Dr Richard Clayton, it will cost billions to implement, if estimates for similar schemes hold true.

UK plans to monitor all online comms are “waste of money” | TechRepublic

So who is going to pay for this?
It seems bizarre that at a time when public spending cutbacks are rife the government sees fit to spend money on such a scheme of dubious value for money.
This has been about in one form or another for at least four years. It used to be called 'CopperEye' in the early days.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:105:0054:0063:EN:PDF

[GastonJ]

So who is going to pay for this?
It seems bizarre that at a time when public spending cutbacks are rife the government sees fit to spend money on such a scheme of dubious value for money.

You (Joe Public) is going to pay for it of course, did you really think that someone else was going to pay? It will either be through direct/indirect tax or through paying for the privilege of using the internet or telephone. I thought you'd have realised that by now.

[aleister crowley]

It was a rhetorical question. Hence the 2nd line

[bonecrusher]

I thought the UK prided itself with freedom of speech.To me it sounds like a dictatorship.Ha