Privacy Groups Attack UK ISPs 'Collusion' With Government Snooping

Posted by Unknown on Monday April 22, 2013 @04:06PM from the must-have-something-to-hide dept.

judgecorp writes "Privacy groups have accused British ISPs of a 'conspiracy of silence' over the impact of the UK government;s proposed Communications Data Bill or 'Snooper's Charter.' The letter accuses the SPs of allowing themselves to be 'co-opted as an arm of the state' — and of not telling their customers what they are up to. Under the bill, ISPs can be ordered to store their users' communications data (the who when and where but not the content of emails etc) for police to search through."

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Re:Theresa May co-opted more like by jrumney · 2013-04-22 17:22 · Score: 3, Interesting

This is not a new thing that has come in under Theresa May's watch. I remember a time around 2000 on dial-up, when an excessive lag caused me to look into where my internet traffic was being slowed down. A traceroute showed the connection going around in a circle amongst a dozen or so routers near Milton Keynes before heading back to a server hosted in the exact same exchange I was connected to.