UK Web Snooping Plan Invades Privacy, Despite Claims To the Contrary

Posted by timothy on Friday April 20, 2012 @09:36PM from the you're-doing-a-wrong-thing-badly dept.

sweetpea86 writes with a snippet from this story at TechWorld:"The UK government's proposal to separate communications data from content, as part of new plans to allow intelligence services to monitor all internet activity, is infeasible according to a panel of technology experts. Speaking at the 'Scrambling for Safety' conference in London, Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, said that the distinction between traffic data as being harmless and content as being sensitive is becoming less and less relevant. 'Now that people are living more and more of their lives online, the pattern of who you communicate with and in what order gives away pretty well everything,' he said. 'This means that, in data protection terms, traffic data is now very often going to be specially sensitive data.'"

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Re:Missing the point by Nursie · 2012-04-20 23:08 · Score: 5, Interesting

"The government seeing the data should not be that big a deal unless you have something to hide"
How about 'it's none of your fscking business, nor anyone else's, who I talk to' ?
How about that?
Government should exist as a way for society to collectively enforce a code of law, and to provide common services we all need. As far as I'm concerned this is way, way, way beyond its remit.