Government to roll out same snooping tactics as 'China and Iran'

[cheguvera]

Government to roll out same snooping tactics as 'China and Iran' by getting access to everybody's emails, texts, and internet browsing


'Listening' agency at GCHQ will be able to monitor whom you contact, when and how often
Similar legislation was thrown out when Labour proposed it in 2006

By Lyle Brennan (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Lyle+Brennan)

PUBLISHED: 11:19, 1 April 2012 | UPDATED: 15:22, 1 April 2012

Comments (240) (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123512/New-snooping-law-allow-Government-access-everybodys-emails-texts-internet-browsing.html#comments)
Share (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123512/New-snooping-law-allow-Government-access-everybodys-emails-texts-internet-browsing.html#socialLinks)


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/01/article-2123512-1241A425000005DC-618_306x423.jpg Being watched: Internet companies will have to install hardware to give the Government greater access to online communications data

Major changes to surveillance laws are to give the Government the power to monitor email exchanges and website visits of every person in the UK.
The new legislation is expected to be announced in the Queen's Speech next month


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123512/New-snooping-law-allow-Government-access-everybodys-emails-texts-internet-browsing.html#ixzz1qoGdHXpa

[cheguvera]

Internet has become a great threat to capitalism.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

Same shits going on in the U.S. The new NDAA law allows anyone to be arrested without any evidence and held for however long, etc.

[Q]

Given that this is an international board the title might best be edited to have "UK" in it.

Anyway, I expect technologies like Tor, I2P and Freenet to get much more popular in the short term. Join the vanguard (http://www.revleft.com/vb/group.php?groupid=726).

[Left Leanings]

I already thought this legislation was on the Staute Book, and was in force. I hadn't realized it had been shelved by Labour, so thanks for your post.

I remember an article in The Daily Telegraph (not known for a progressive stance on most things, I know), that over 900 public bodies would have the right to apply to a government minister, to mount surveillance on people.

Worryingly, this even applies to what you might think are quite trivial things, like whether you actually live in the catchment area where you wish to send your kids to school.

There was a documentary on TV a while back, in which a local authority education official suspected a family had only temporarily rented a home, in order to meet the catchment area for a 'decent' school - and were still maintaining their actual home, and moving back there once the kids were safely ensconced in the desired school.

There was actual footage of the woman going to and from her home to her the school, and even zoom shots of her and her family, in their kitchen.

There was a massive stink about it at the time, and rightly so. Because if low-level state bureaucrats can mount surveillance over petty matters like this, well, you know....

My understanding also, is that letters, emails, phone calls etc, all can be intercepted and looked into, to determine, among other things, benefit claims. So if a couple are claiming to live separately, to qualify for more than one council property, or claim more in benefits, the state can listen into calls, open letters and read what's written, to try and ascertain the exact nature of people's living arrangements.

Big Brother is indeed watching - or is about to.

George Orwell, eat your heart out.

[Hexen]

Internet has become a great threat to capitalism.

Internet and capitalism are incompatible.

These articles are still relevant.

http://www.marxist.com/capitalism-internet-patents130306.htm

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1977810,00.asp