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Theresa May Named UK's Internet Villain of the Year
An anonymous reader writes with news that Theresa May, the UK's Secretary of State for the Home Department, has been named the UK internet industry's villain of the year. She won this dubious honor for pushing the UK's controversial "snooper's charter" legislation, which would require ISPs to retain massive amounts of data regarding their subscribers for no less than a year. May championed the legislation without consulting the internet industry.
Conversely, "The MPs Tom Watson and David Davis were jointly named internet hero for their legal action against the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act. 'Surveillance has dominated both the hero and villain shortlists for number of years, and it was felt Davis and Watson were some of the best informed politicians on the subject,' the ISPA said."
Conversely, "The MPs Tom Watson and David Davis were jointly named internet hero for their legal action against the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act. 'Surveillance has dominated both the hero and villain shortlists for number of years, and it was felt Davis and Watson were some of the best informed politicians on the subject,' the ISPA said."
http://aa.net.uk/ do care about their clients' privacy. For a while they had an "as recommended by the House of Lords" link to a speech where parliament's upper chamber lists them as a company that will resist its "voluntary" scheme because it doesn't believe in censorship.
(I don't work for them but I have been a happy customer)
To be honest, Switzerland is to be credited for the WWW, even though the protocols were developed by a Brit working there.
Switzerland is well-known for allowing people to keep their finances secret from world governments.
And "piracy" in the classical sense was really little more than attacking ships without the permission of a particular monarch, i.e. collecting booty without paying tax, i.e. what Switzerland is renowned for.
In other word, the spirit of piracy gave us the modern Internet.
ISP shouldn't store our traffic.
At best/worst they should only store the IP Address and MAC address to the customer start and and time, and our billing information. If the ISP charging via a usage meter then they can store how much data we use.
It shouldn't care where we go or what we do. The government shouldn't feel complied to ask them other then via a Warrant to track back an IP Address, to a customer. And still that shouldn't be enough to convict, just a lead to follow.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.