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UK ISPs Refuse to Monitor Users

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the we're-not-gonna-take-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The internet industry has refused to sign up to plans to give law enforcement and intelligence agencies access to the records of British web and email users, throwing David Blunkett's post-September 11 data surveillance regime into fresh disarray. In the latest of a long line of setbacks for the home secretary's data retention campaign, the Guardian has learned that internet service providers have told the Home Office that they will not voluntarily stockpile the personal records of their customers for long periods so that they can be accessed by police or intelligence officers."

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  1. In a related story... by CySurflex · · Score: 5, Funny

    US ISP's, in an attempt to match the actions of their UK counterparts, have anounced that they will only retain users records for 50 years insead of 100 and will ship their router logs only once a week to the NSA, instead of nightly.

  2. My ISP is Not The Law by Inda · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is no chance of my ISP every doing this in the UK. They can't arrange for the cable box to be fixed. They can't get my bill right after 12 months of me telling them that I do in fact pay by direct debit and they shouldn't be charging me a levy. They can't even pick the phone up after 10^6 rings...

    What chance do they have of recording all my web page visits and emails?

    http://www.nthellworld.com/

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  3. Re:Unfortunately ... by gowen · · Score: 4, Funny
    Does Osama bin Laden even have an email address
    Yes. You can even read his letters in the technology pages of newspapers complaining about how hard it is to get broadband connectivity in his cave.
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