UK Proposing Real-Time Monitoring of All Communications

Posted by Unknown on Monday April 2, 2012 @08:03PM from the good-day-to-bury-bad-news dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In response to a plans to introduce real time monitoring of all UK Internet communications, a petition has been set up in opposition." Previously covered here, El Reg chimes in with a bit of conspiracy theorizing and further analysis: "It would appear that the story is being managed: the government is looking to make sure that CCDP is an old news story well ahead of the Queen's Speech to Parliament on 9 May. Sundays — especially Sunday April the 1st — are good days to have potentially unpopular news reach the population at large."

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Brilliant! by defnoz · 2012-04-02 20:05 · Score: 5, Funny

An e-petition! Brilliant! Since their inception a few years ago they have revolutionised democracy!
1. Re:Brilliant! by MadKeithV · 2012-04-02 20:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  They allow the government to precisely target which sections of the population to ignore.
  You mean "all of them except the big contributors to my slush fund"?