UK ISPs Refuse to Monitor Users

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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[GigsVT]

Sorry, but I think computers are dangerous. I know they weren't used in Sept 11. But I do think that the ease that computers can be obtained in the US is questionable at best. I know a lot of people get a lot of quite innocent pleasure from using computers, and I think this pass time should be protected, but I personally don't see the need for normal citizens to own computers. I'm American, so perhaps I have a different perspective on this.

It would be easier to stop someone from misusing a computer, if you could stop him from (legally) owning it.

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