UK Gov't May Track All Facebook Traffic

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @07:20AM from the posted-before-curfew dept.

Jack Spine writes "The UK government, which is becoming increasingly Orwellian, has said that it is considering snooping on all social networking traffic including Facebook, MySpace, and bebo. This supposedly anti-terrorist measure may be proposed as part of the Intercept Modernisation Programme according to minister Vernon Coaker, and is exactly the sort of deep packet inspection web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee warned about last week. The measure would get around the inconvenience for the government of not being able to snoop on all UK web traffic."

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Maybe they want to find Princess Margaret pics.. by GPLDAN · 2009-03-18 08:25 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Jason Statham was in a film called The Bank Job, a film which was actually pretty good. In it, they break into a bank in 1970 and get into safe deposit boxes. One of the boxes has pictures of Princess Margaret in flagrante delicto.

Maybe that's what this is all about. Snooping facebook so that there aren't any nasty pics of the royals giving head.