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UK Government To Monitor All Internet Use
nk497 writes "The UK government has further detailed plans to track all communications — mobile phone calls, text messages, email and browser sessions — in the fight against terrorism, pedophiles and organized crime. The government said it's not looking to see what you're saying, just to whom and when and how. Contrary to previous plans to keep it all in a massive database, it will now let ISPs and telecoms firms store the data themselves, and access it when it feels it needs it." And to clarify this,
Barence writes "The UK Government has dropped plans to create a massive database of all internet communications, following stern criticism from privacy advocates. Instead the Government wants ISPs and mobile phone companies to retain details of mobile phone calls, emails and internet sites visited. As with the original scheme, the actual content of the phone calls and messages won't be recorded, just the dates, duration and location/IP address of messages sent. The security services would then have to apply to the ISP or telecoms company to have the data released. The new proposals would also require ISPs to retain details of communications that originated in other countries but passed over the UK's network, such as instant messages."
The UK is just putting together the biggest porn database in the history of the world to provide a search engine along with relevant advertising to bring in some extra cash.
Nothing can go wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong...
Table-ized A.I.
Well, I am not going to feel safe until *everyone* is in jail. That is the only way to make sure there is not a criminal free somewheres.
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Maybe the e-snoop plan is a ploy by the postal service to boost revenues. Very clever, those Brits.
Table-ized A.I.
Example of an intercepted IM conversation:
AC1: I'm thinking to get a new car next week
AC2: Sweet, what colour are you getting?
AC1: Dude? "colour"?
AC2: I didn't put that 'u' there...
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Please, as anyone who does sorting in RM will tell you, losing stuff is damned rare.
Most mail that doesn't reach its destination is because the public is apparently too damn stupid to write a proper address.
Hell, just last week I had two letters to Dublin, United Kingdom; three to West Germany and a couple of dozen with no town or city...
Never mind the people who just make up post codes.
I'm sorry, but if I want to write my address as "1337 Drive, Leetown, HAX X0R" simply because it sounds a lot cooler than "123 Main Steet, Liverpool", I bloody well will and it's your job to make sure it gets there!
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
No, no, in Soviet Russia mail addresses you...
Actually, according to our govt database, George Orwell turned over twice within an hour of this slashdot posting.
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Dude, you might have been tagged Troll by the Kosdot mods who dislike any assault on the political elite, since "progressives" are the ones in power now.
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
Would you like to lash me with that nice whip you have there?
Public school boy, are you?
don't you mean
int main Street?
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes