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UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls
Sara Chan writes "The UK government plans to introduce legislation that will allow the police to track every phone call, email, text message and website visit made by the public. The information will include who is contacting whom, when and where and which websites are visited, but not the content of the conversations or messages. Every communications provider will be required to store the information for at least a year."
...at every intersection in London. I guess the ACLU was unsuccessful in setting up a branch office.
I hate being bipolar; it's awesome!
Soon, I shall dawn my cape and mast to fight this tyranny! ... I just have to brush up on my knife throwing skills, police in the UK use guns now right? ...Bummer.
And we've always been at war with eastasia.
The UK government plans to introduce legislation that will allow the police to track every phone call, email, text message and website visit made by the public.
How quaint -- they use laws to grant government authority for such things. Over on this side of the pond the President just declares it to be so and tells the judicial they're not allowed to hear any petitions for redress of grievances. Much simpler that way.
Stop-Prism.org: Opt Out of Surveillance
Shit, son, you deserve a double whoosh for that one.
WHOOOOOOSH!
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
> without a hint of malice...
I beg to differ.
Malice -> from latin Malitia -> from Malus = evil; therefore "evil thing" in latin is Malum
Malum -> latin for... apple.
That's what i call a hint :D
---- MISSING MISCELLANEOUS DATA SEGMENT --- [sigdash] trolololol
A double whoosh! Oh my god, WHAT DOES IT MEAN!? T_T
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
The people who are pushing this will never face an election. They will never be sacked. This is why the plans persist from government to government. Ministers come and go, but the civil service is permanent, and always attempting to expand.
Didn't the BBC used to have a documentary series on that aspect of the British government?
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
A double whoosh! Oh my god, WHAT DOES IT MEAN!? T_T
It means that someone completely missed the point, had it explained to them and then ... missed it again. It was actually funnier than the original joke.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
It's so nice to see the lunatics on the far-right agreeing with the lunatics on the far-left. Really makes one hopeful about the future.
Don't be too sure. How did Lewis Black put it?
.... is when those little pricks work together.
The only thing dumber than a Democrat, or a Republican
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Triple whoosh! All the way!
Whoa! That's so intense!
Whooooooaaa-oh my god!
Wow! Woooooooooooo!
"There is nothing nice about Steve Jobs and nothing evil about Bill Gates." - Chuck Peddle